Because until the world is perfect, you sometimes still have to play dirty: Armed with my new tips and tricks, I laced up my skates and headed out to face the jungle that is childhood. When the boys confronted me again, I dared them to mess with me. One ballsy kid lunged towards me with […]
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I am happy, or at the very least willing, to debate whether or not a certain act, behavior, word, or belief is inherently sexist or misogynistic. I am not, however, willing to debate the importance or necessity of feminism. Honestly, if you really truly think feminism is wrong, or that women just have it made
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Aside from line edits. Steph and I went over to the German Fest at the Dayton fairgrounds. It was a small crowd and not a big event or anything, but we ate schnitzel and german potato salad and got our faces painted and went on some rides and did a little shopping, and Stephanie won
… as I finish up the last 20 pages of the latest round of GW line edits. Fitting song for the last push of this, I think. Burning Bridges – Christ Pureka This is a story of burning bridges and allowing time to pass this is a story of forgiveness and breaking things in my
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My last day in the hospital last year, I spoke with a nutritionist about my new “diabetic diet.” For those of you unfamiliar with how diabetes works, a short general explanation: I have an autoimmune disease which was triggered by “who knows what” but likely some kind of virus that told my immune system that
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I took a whole course on the Civil War, and being a history buff, it’s something I have some passing knowledge about (that is, more than most, but it’s not my interest or my specialty). That said, it didn’t occur to me how the north had won that battle, strategy-wise, until I saw this visual
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My insulin has, technically, expired this week, and as we all know, I don’t want to pull what I did a month ago and use expired insulin for 2 months and watch my health deteriorate because I was living on credit cards and too fucking poor to live adequately. But I wanted to wait just
Christmas in August Read More »