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Back to the Books
Is it delusional to go back to school at age 52? Is it naïve to re-enter the workforce at 54? As I begin a two-year plan in hopes of working in conservation and restoration, these questions play on repeat in my mind. Whenever I think, Sure, this school-to-work thing is totally going to work out, it makes…
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Camp Med
By the evening of my Monday breakdown, Robin was duly concerned. I’d rarely shown such lack of control over my emotions, usually shaking them off with some semi-productive distraction such as cleaning or running or … writing, which I had quit. So the next morning he surprised me with a kindhearted attempt to make me…
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Cozy Birds of a Feather
While the interior of the Doubletree near Sea-Tac airport evokes tones of brown-hued melancholy, I am rather fond of this hotel, particularly the wings of labyrinthine sections surrounded by trees and lifted from the ground so as to imitate a sort of boardwalk floating above the forest floor, river rock simulating the river. The effect…
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Hatching a New Start
Last Monday I tested out a breakdown of which at its freshest alternated bawling with fighting back tears, as when facing the friendly checkout clerk at PCC. In those brief dry intervals I conjured hatchling sea turtles trundling toward the sea, an image I call upon in times of flailing anxiety. What prompted the episode…
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