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January 7, 2016

i'm thankful to open the weather app on my phone and see, for the first time this year, the snow icon beside several days next week. i'm thankful to hope...

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January 5, 2016

i'm thankful for this post by charlie stross, which explores how a society might advance technologically without writing. i'm thankful for world building is...

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January 4, 2016

i'm thankful that even though i had built up going back to work as this horrible huge ominous thing, it's actually been just fine and, as is almost always...

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January 3, 2016

i'm thankful that d likes the air plants that i got her for christmas. i'm thankful that air plants can remove nutrients and moisture from dust, which feels...

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January 3, 2016

i'm thankful that d likes the air plants that i got her for christmas. i'm thankful that air plants can remove nutrients and moisture from dust, which feels...

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January 1, 2016

i'm thankful for the gaudy gold-colored foil around the screw-top of the cheap spumante we bought to celebrate the year. i'm thankful for the leftover...

12/31/15

December 31, 2015

i'm thankful for the episode of the song exploder podcast i listened to about wilco's song "magnetized." i'm thankful to learn about jeff tweedy's...

12/30/15

December 30, 2015

i'm thankful that i got lost on my bike ride yesterday. i'm thankful that my phone died unexpectedly as i tried a new route in order to avoid the muddy...

12/29/15

December 29, 2015

i'm thankful that yesterday evening while i was getting ready to make a simple dinner of pasta and salad, d reminded me that today was trash and recycling...

12/28/15

December 28, 2015

i'm thankful for the nightmare in which my mother revealed to me, in a darkened upstairs bedroom, that i had had cancer for nine months and that she couldn't...

12/27/15

December 27, 2015

i'm thankful for my first massage. i'm thankful that when i gave d a gift certificate for a local spa for christmas, she insisted that instead of getting a...

12/26/15

December 26, 2015

i'm thankful for video calls. i'm thankful that even though this is the first christmas that neither d or i went home, we were able to feel like we were...

12/25/15

December 25, 2015

i'm thankful that we were late to the new star wars. i'm thankful that when we entered the theater, sure that the pre-show trailers would still be playing,...

12/24/15

December 24, 2015

i'm thankful for the beginner's guide, a video game i played yesterday afternoon which was one of the most moving artistic experiences i've had in a long...

12/23/15

December 23, 2015

i'm thankful that it's the first day of vacation. i'm thankful that though we had planned to walk across town to see the new star wars this morning, it's...

12/22/15

December 22, 2015

i'm thankful for how a few months of commuting on my bike has given me access to a whole world of driving feelings that i never experienced in thirty years...

12/21/15

December 21, 2015

i'm thankful that there was a problem with cell signals traveling through the air when i went running through the thick gray morning yesterday and so neither...

12/20/15

December 20, 2015

i'm thankful for that we went to the art museum on the last weekend before the fall exhibition closes. i'm thankful for the exhibition, which introduced me...

12/19/15

December 19, 2015

i'm thankful to get let out of work a little early on a friday afternoon. i'm thankful to the faculty member who let me out of work a little early, and i'm...

12/18/15

December 18, 2015

i'm thankful that i had a horrible night last night. i'm thankful that i woke up at 2am and couldn't go back to sleep within a few minutes, for the first...