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This is what I know. Maybe it’s that we don’t expect more, maybe it’s we get so tired of trying, maybe it’s that we can’t get up off the floor after falling down & getting up & falling down so many times, maybe it’s we’ve...
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This is what I know Post coffee Pre wine Last week was the anniversary of my Mom’s death. A little bit about my mom. She was crazy nuts gorgeous; like wowza beautiful. She could stop traffic & if you stole her parking space out from...
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This is what I know A good memory Post coffee Pre wine A few years ago a friend of mine screamed up at the heavens in a very crazy bitter unhappy voice: I NEED MY FUCKING LIFE TO CHANGE NOW, RIGHT FUCKING NOW, THIS FUCKING...
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Nothing like waking up to a private message from some guy you never met, never had a one night stand with, and whose profile picture is a cartoon version of himself. He felt the need to tell me IN ALL CAPS that I was a...
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Like many people I know, I woke up that Wednesday morning, the day after the election, shocked and unnerved. I was supposed to have awakened elated – finally, a woman president! And hooray — we were joyfully continuing that long march begun a century ago,...
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Will you name me, before I can name myself? Will you see my skin and name me a color, as if that defined me, as if pigment is a thing at all? Will you see my sex, my breasts that swell with milk, and desire,...
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This is what I know this morning Post coffee Pre wine Nothing like waking up to a private message from some guy you never met, never had a one-night stand with, and whose profile picture is a cartoon version. He felt the need to tell...
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When I was in graduate school, I had, what I have come to believe, a holy experience — I heard God. OK, maybe not God, and not even God’s actual voice. Maybe I just heard the word of God, spoken so clearly, so sparely and...
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UC Davis community ecologist Rachel Vannette has discovered why pollinators continue to forage on “toxic” or bitter-tasting nectar, despite what should be a deterrent. In newly published research in the journal Ecology, Vannette noted that floral nectar is produced by many plants to reward pollinators, but...
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