Tag: Prose
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The Child Grows Up
This week has got me wanting to be a kid again. What I wouldn’t give for that. Childhood is a state of pure, simple, in-the-moment life. If there is danger, your parents scoop you up and protect you from it. The worst reason you will ever cry is if some kid pulls your hair and…
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The Land of Looks
Happy belated Thanksgiving! I’ve been so busy in the past few days that I forgot to post. While I didn’t have my traditional Thanksgiving dinner — in Massachusetts, with the parade on in the background, fighting for the seat at the table next to my Grandad, watching one cousin avoid vegetables and laughing at the…
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Stressing Out About Stress
Sometimes the universe starts physically hating on you for not having a handle on your life. I’ve been trying to manage my stress levels this week. I have discovered — or more accurately, rediscovered — that I am painfully not in control of my own body. It does what it pleases: when I’m nervous, it…
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All Work and No Play (aka A Very Skewed Worldview)
This week, I had two unexpected sick days. This means that I had two days to sit and analyze myself and realize, among other things, that I’m a bad writer. Okay, clarification time. I realize that some people are going to get mad at me for saying that (*cough, cough* Mom), but I don’t mean that…
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Sickly Sam and Her Teachable Moments
I know, I know. It’s been two weeks since I’ve come back from my trip to Romania, and I have been woefully silent. I apologize for that. I promise there’s a reason behind it… but I’ll get to that in a minute. First, let me break you the bad news: I will not give you…
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Deafinitely Beautiful
I know I’ve been fairly silent since I crossed the Atlantic Ocean, but don’t worry: I am safe and sound with mi hermana. I had to wait in Budapest for a day and a half to be reunited with her, but reunited we were, and then we crossed into Romanian territory. Becky and I set…
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Kick-off
When I was looking for flights out of the country, I figured it would be appropriate to fly out of Boston so I could make a quick visit to the Cape and see my family. Man, I make good decisions sometimes. Though I always manage to only be home for a day or two, and…
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The Thing About Culture Shock
Guys. I leave for Romania in less than a week. As I prepare for my trip to Romania to visit my sister, I’ve been reflecting a lot on past trips — I’ve been comparing the amounts of time it took me to prepare for my various previous travels, reminiscing about the experiences I had, etc.…
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Sam Posts In Her Blog! (And Other Delayed Tales)
Note: If you’re here to help me pick a Halloween costume, that part is at the end. Scroll along, bud. Life Updates! Sam has a lot of stuff going on at the moment. Sam also likes to speak in the third person. Sorry about that. Here are some things that I’ve decided could be cool…
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Green Means Go
Forgive me, for the following will probably read like an angsty teen diary. Except it’ll be about query letters. Guys! I’ve started sending query letters for The Fields! Let’s pretend that it’s not 12 days after the deadline I gave myself, okay? I’ve sent four today. Four tiny little queries. I’d say that’s a good…