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Monsters Under the Bed
“I’m friends with the monster that’s under my bedGet along with the voices inside of my headYou’re tryin’ to save me, stop holdin’ your breathAnd you think I’m crazy, yeah, you think I’m crazy“ The Monster (song) by Eminem featuring Rihanna My dreaded annual physical awaits me as I sit on the flimsy, white-papered exam Continue reading
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Korean Spa
My half-clothed mom places a steaming coffee next to my bedside in our Busan Korea hotel room. She has been hiding out in the bathroom for the past hour trying not to wake me until 6:00am when the gym opens. Cardio is her sacred early morning ritual. ‘Don’t talk to me before my exercise,’ Continue reading
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Toothless in Rwanda
Thick soupy rainforest fog surrounds me as I step outside my cozy room at the rustic aging tourist lodge overlooking the Virunga mountains of Rwanda. The dawn is wet and chilly. Eight volcanoes separate us from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, the unstable earth an apt reference for the smoldering conflict ever Continue reading
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OPPS/OOPS
Next week is my golden birthday. I turn 6. My parents promised they will be home from vacation to celebrate together. Until then we’re stuck at Aunt P and Uncle S’s new house on 8th street in Fargo near Lindenwood Park which has a playground. We are homesick because they have no food or toys Continue reading
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A satellite industry vice president by day and amateur astrologer by night, I enjoy writing creatively about my life.
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