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January 22, 2016

i'm thankful for the story s told me about r going off his antidepressant cold turkey and how she had thought he seemed different, but didn't know for sure...

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January 22, 2016

I am thankful that our son got pink eye yesterday, two days before our small, stupid wedding, that it developed at the clinic where we got x-rays and...

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January 21, 2016

i'm thankful for the best line on this week's kuwtk, which was when kendall asked caitlyn "do you ever use your helicopters anymore?" i'm thankful for...

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January 20, 2016

i'm thankful that it snowed again overnight. i'm thankful that it snowed enough that the local schools were cancelled—i'm thankful to remember being a kid in...

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January 19, 2016

i'm thankful that i chose not to meditate before dinner yesterday evening. i'm thankful because that meant that i was in the kitchen washing dishes and...

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January 18, 2016

i'm thankful that we finally watched the movie selma last night. i'm thankful for the times when an "important" movie also turns out to be a good movie. i'm...

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January 17, 2016

i'm thankful that in my annual performance review, my manager marked all my boxes as "exceeds expectations." i'm thankful that she was so genuine and...

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January 16, 2016

i'm thankful that i work in a windowless office. i'm thankful, even though this sometimes depresses me, because it also occasionally allows for a dramatic...

thank you notes (patrick)

January 16, 2016

i am thankful for the opportunity to write this note in a form which i had never really considered before because i generally find it very difficult to think...

thank you notes (julia)

January 15, 2016

i’m thankful this week that even though d was late for work on one of the most stressful weeks of his year, he held me while i cried a little - for the...

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January 14, 2016

i'm thankful for the broad mass of pink cloud hanging in the sky near the sun this morning during my commute, thankful for the way it looked like it had been...

thank you notes (L)

January 13, 2016

I'm thankful for the leftover daal in my freezer, the recipe which I finally managed to perfect last week. I'm thankful for bags of baby spinach and whole...

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January 13, 2016

i'm thankful for how crazy things have been this week with the students back on campus and the semester started and research projects restarted and tenure...

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January 12, 2016

i'm thankful for the story "i'm pretty comfortable, but i could be a little more comfortable" by lydia davis, which you can hear me read to you by clicking...

thank you notes (esmé)

January 11, 2016

there's a certain type of someone who can undo the knots in your chest when thinking becomes cyclical obsessive maddening. all it takes is a phone call in...

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January 11, 2016

i'm thankful that we went for a walk in the snow yesterday morning, even though it was very cold. i'm thankful that the cemetery wasn't yet plowed and so,...

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January 10, 2016

i'm thankful that when i woke up early this morning to go to the bathroom, i noticed, through the blurred scrim of my sleep eyes, that it seemed unusually...

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January 9, 2016

i'm thankful that on my walk home from work yesterday, i stopped at the gas station on the southern edge of downtown to buy something for us to have for...

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January 8, 2016

i'm thankful for the faculty member who asked me what i was drinking at lunch today, for how, when i told her it was kombucha, her face lit up and she said...

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January 7, 2016

i'm thankful for how beautiful the sky in the east was this morning when i left for work. i'm thankful for the way that, when i first saw it, riding down our...