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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…
Denise S. Robbins
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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…
Denise S. Robbins
RIP to the Christmas Trains, Hello to the New YearListen now (9 min) | A little holiday reading
Denise S. Robbins

December 2022

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…
Denise S. Robbins

November 2022

I went down to get my mail and found a L.L. Bean catalog. I’ve never purchased anything from L.L. Bean, but I do happen to own a hand-me-down L.L. Bean…
Denise S. Robbins

October 2022

It was incubating. It was waiting. Did my writing seem low-energy two weeks ago? It was. I didn’t know it myself, but It was perched inside me…
Denise S. Robbins
Feet Flatten everything. They flatten their ears, flatten their backs, burrow themselves into the hardwood floor, preparing for a leap. Preparing for…
Denise S. Robbins
I can remember four times this summer when a clear skies forecast left me unprepared for a dumping thunderstorm, and at least four other times when I…
Denise S. Robbins

September 2022

Tiny crystals of calcium carbonate line your inner ear. Their role is this: submit to gravity. Tell the body which way is down. When you move, they…
Denise S. Robbins

August 2022

It was a hot dry day. Seth wanted to go on a thirty-mile bike ride. We were bikeless. We found a bike store. They had normal bikes. They also had tandem…
Denise S. Robbins
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It was the most important decision I had to make all day. The only decision I had to make all day. But my options were limited. It was between a plain…
Denise S. Robbins

July 2022

It was a Friday night and I had nothing to do. But there’s always something fun to see at Marshalls, where everything’s on sale and nothing makes sense…
Denise S. Robbins
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