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Wisconsinian
It all feels so exotic. Wisconsin. Whenever I overhear that word, my ears prickle. After sixteen years living outside of Wisconsin, feeling like…
Apr 7
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Denise S. Robbins
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March 2024
Paint Fumes
Seth and I moved into our new house before our things arrived. All we had was a couch, a mattress, and a folding table, while our life, packed in a…
Mar 3
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Denise S. Robbins
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February 2024
It's all downhill from here (goodbye DC)
Two weeks from tomorrow, Seth and I are getting on a plane. It’s a one-way flight to Madison, Wisconsin, to our new house. That gives me two weeks to…
Feb 4
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Denise S. Robbins
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December 2023
DC, reviewed
After eleven and a half years living in DC, I’m planning to move away, with my husband, to Wisconsin. As a result, we are finally discovering places in…
Dec 24, 2023
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November 2023
Emperor of the Sidewalk
I go on a lot of walks. Nearly every evening, I walk around the neighborhood. Adding up the miles over the years I’ve lived in DC, I could have walked…
Nov 26, 2023
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New(s)
There is a war raging in the basement of my apartment building. In the resident gym, there are four television screens. For a long time, they were…
Nov 5, 2023
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Denise S. Robbins
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October 2023
(Not) looking at you (not) looking at me
I was eating a sandwich on a bench by the water when a sparrow approached. He flew down and landed three feet away. I don’t know if you’ve ever had a…
Oct 1, 2023
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Denise S. Robbins
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September 2023
The wedding photos are ruined
(but not the ones that matter)
Sep 10, 2023
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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, 2023
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Denise S. Robbins
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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, 2023
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Denise S. Robbins
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Are we breaking or are we healing?
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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, 2023
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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, 2023
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