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Ken Burns is my new booze & white Boomers with guns & those Americans who still have feelings left

I write this from bed, & I think maybe these last two days are the first two days in about 16 months in which I’ve had nothing too major/pressing in my immediate periphery, over my head, nothing too major that requires immediate action. Not today. At least not that I’m…

Guns

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Ken Burns is my new booze & white Boomers with guns & those Americans who still have feelings left
Ken Burns is my new booze & white Boomers with guns & those Americans who still have feelings left

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On the one-hundred-and-eleventh day of November, 2020

My boss texted me this morning to say he liked the “editorial comment” I slipped into this week’s edition of our school newsletter. I had accidentally left a typo dating the newsletter: 111/01/2020. But like my boss said first, it DOES feel like we’re in month one-hundred and eleven of…

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On the one-hundred-and-eleventh day of November, 2020
On the one-hundred-and-eleventh day of November, 2020

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I don’t give a shit what the founding fathers think

One of the things I’ll definitely miss about living in Flagstaff is the way you just “run into people you know” all the time. Like I remember a couple years ago being in the grocery store and a student shouting across the dairy aisle “Hey, Gruber! …

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I don’t give a shit what the founding fathers think about anything in 2020
I don’t give a shit what the founding fathers think about anything in 2020

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No candy: just dry pasta, tea bags

I forgot it’s almost Halloween. My sixth graders didn’t. A boy in my middle school Intro to CRW asked me this morning what I’d do if he shows up at my house tomorrow asking for a treat (and I’m thinking why the fuck would you do that? — then I…

Cancer

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No candy: just dry pasta, tea bags
No candy: just dry pasta, tea bags

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Maybe/Or

A few thoughts thirteen days before the presidential election and thirteen days before I find out if the breast cancer has spread to my lungs *** The pandemic started with punk rock, and morphed to 90s Manchester and today I moved into Patsy Cline. I started, of course, with Crazy…

Cancer

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Maybe/Or
Maybe/Or

Mar 29

My last Medium: check ya later, hooligans

I am sitting on my couch drinking hot cocoa I made with almond milk in a little tiny crockpot my aunt gave me during my visit to her home this weekend. I am drinking the almond-milk hot cocoa from a cup that belonged to my grandmother, and it is not…

Buddhism

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My last Medium: check ya later, hooligans
My last Medium: check ya later, hooligans

Mar 25

Ted Cruz is an alcoholic

Maybe Ted Cruz doesn’t drink liquor. Maybe Ted Cruz doesn’t snort cocaine like Trump & Co. Maybe Ted Cruz doesn’t hit anything harder than potato salad. Ted Cruz is still a drunk, and just like all drunks sick on the darkness and the miserable quest for more money and more…

Senator Ted Cruz

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Mar 23

A bill of divorcement

A Bill of Divorcement is the title of a film from the 1930s that I’ve never seen, but that my maternal grandmother would bring up from time to time as it seemed to have made some kind of impression on her. Now, “a bill of divorcement” is something I say…

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A bill of divorcement
A bill of divorcement

Mar 19

Morning lyrics

When I first started teaching high school, I felt like this was a fall from grace for my career ambitions. My ex and I used to call Mr. Holland’s Opus a “horror film” and then there I was, strolling right into that “horror film.” I wanted to be an English…

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Morning lyrics
Morning lyrics

Mar 18

Apartment Buildings

I have not lived in an “apartment building” in nearly ten years. The last apartment I had, before I was married, was a cute little place above some stores in Milwaukee. I haven’t lived in a “complex” since 2011ish. And so this complex is a novelty to me. I like…

Buddhism

10 min read

Apartment Buildings
Apartment Buildings
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Allison Gruber

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