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The Simple Life
As most of you know, I’m weird. So I’m sure it wouldn’t surprise you to know that when I was younger, I had a strange obsession with small spaces and shall we say, “survival” adventures. I would pack a small backpack with some essentials (Snack Packs, Ring Pops, my portable DVD player…) and find a…
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I Think About You in the Summertime
For a large chunk of my life, the end of June meant one thing: Cross Point Resort. This trip was simply called “vacation” by anyone privy to the week-long stay in the Northern Minnesota woods. Nobody ever needed to ask “which vacation?” because it always seemed to be the only one that ever mattered. Indeed,…
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Natural and Safe in a Volatile Place
I had every well intention to write in this blog during the past several weeks. I had even greater intentions a few weekends ago, while attending an Avett Brothers and Brandi Carlile concert. Sometimes a moment comes along (hopefully more often than not), when everything around you-sights, sounds, smells, everything—falls into line and you feel…
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This Little Poem Went to the Market
So it’s the first day of June, which, in my mind, means it is also the first day of summer. On memorial day weekend a year ago I knew my attitude had to change. I’d already had one miserable summer stuck in the middle of nowhere and I was determined not to have another. Even…
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Downing the Work Vodka
It saddens me knowing how resistant many of are to acknowledging the fact that we can change our lifestyle. We complain about our lot in life and disregard the part of the problem that’s malleable. When we’re stressed out we whine about it and ignore it as a signal from ourselves to god forbid change…
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Pigsty
As long as I have retained a memory, my room has always been a complete mess. Though I have a clean room more frequently than I used to growing up (twice a year on major holidays, and even then most of my stuff was just shoved in a teetering pile in the closet of in…
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Throwback: The Graduation Experience
Graduation season is now upon us, and this weekend many of the remaining members of my UWRF kin, my boyfriend included, will be walking across a cheap high school stage at 9:00 a.m. on a Sunday, because that’s the best the University could do this year. I have been to five of these already, including…
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The Search Continues…
Every day for the last couple weeks, I have been perusing job sites, looking in vain for a full time job to take me away from the current double part-time customer-service-all-the-time fiasco of my employment. Not that I dislike the jobs, necessarily. In fact, there are many aspects I quite enjoy. But I can’t help…
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Childhood Throwback Part Threeeeeeee…
From when I first could form semi-intelligible words until I was about ten I did a strange thing. Whenever I was focused or concentrating on something, I would emit a sound that sounded like, “Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.” I was basically the human equivalent of a smoke detector you can’t get to turn off, no matter how many…
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The Castle that Built Me
I must admit, I haven’t been on top of writing lately. Not just because I’ve been busy with work, but also because I’ve been in an un-funny funk of late. Then I realized, it doesn’t really matter what tone my posts are. One of the many freedoms of not having a wide readership. What I…
Babbling Brooks 