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The wedding photos are ruined
(but not the ones that matter)
Sep 10
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Denise S. Robbins
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July 2023
HUMILITY!
I took a gondola for the gondola’s sake. If there’s a gondola, there must be a rider of the gondola. That was me, and two friends, with time to kill in…
Jul 16
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Are we breaking or are we healing?
The morning after Canadian wildfires gave DC a code-red AQI, a small glob of blood came out of my nose. For the first time in my recollected life, I had…
Jul 2
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May 2023
Purple enough to make a doctor say “ew”
I love having a body. I think it’s fantastic. It can do all kinds of amazing things like stretch and dance and rub oil into skin. I try to remember my…
May 21
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I heard a Senator poop and he didn't wash his hands
I was on Capitol Hill to research my absurdist politics novel, and by research I mean, capturing vibes. I’m not writing about any particular real person…
May 7
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April 2023
Bloomers
I must be part plant, because I bloom in the springtime. The sun returns, the warmth returns, and a fizzy joy—I feel it in my chest. My headaches clear…
Apr 23
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Not a drill
There were flashing lights. People pouring out of our 300-unit apartment building. I’d just come back from Target with kitten food, toothpaste, and a…
Apr 2
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March 2023
What time?
My book about time is late at the library. The book is called Timefulness and it’s about the lifecycle of our planet. The beginning. The snowball. The…
Mar 12
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January 2023
A cat scratch, a portal
There’s a photograph of a ceiling hanging on our wall. It was taken at an angle, from below and to the side, in a construction zone, with stairs leading…
Jan 29
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These shriveled fingers
These shriveled fingers are red with cold, engagement ring loosening, threatening to fall. We are getting our photos taken, standing on the ice with no…
Jan 15
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RIP to the Christmas Trains, Hello to the New Year
Listen now (9 mins) | A little holiday reading
Jan 1
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Denise S. Robbins
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RIP to the Christmas Trains, Hello to the New Year
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December 2022
Seven thousand photos
In 2022, I took a thousand photos of things that don’t matter, and not enough of the things that do. I wrote a thousand little thoughts in the Notes app…
Dec 18, 2022
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