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The Best Pumpkin Pie I’ve Ever Had So first of all, cards on the table: I hate pumpkin pie. Most of it sucks. It tastes like chewed-up paper towels in a...
"Until the sun came up again"
Dylan and I have spent the last week watching all 14 currently extant seasons of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” in six days, so I have no thoughts...
"You just jump a little higher"
maple cocaine @maplecocaineEach day on twitter there is one main character. The goal is to never be itJanuary 3rd 201919,966 Retweets88,699 LikesI think...
"Free to spend eternity in the factory"
Dylan and I were in a liquor store yesterday picking up a bottle of wine for our coworker’s birthday. There was a clear sheet of plexiglass hanging in front...
"An astronaut could've seen the hunger in my eyes from space"
Lately Dylan and I have been parceling out ways to fill our time: shows we’ve meant to catch up on for years, laundry to do, plants to water, and so on. A...
"A space in the air only your bones could fill"
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what I want out of life, which I suppose is a natural effect of having currently unlimited time to contemplate what...
"If not by faith then by the sword"
Whose blood greases the wheels of your existence?I’ll go first. There are the retail workers at the food service distribution company where Dylan and I are...
"Simple hands"
I never said no, not once, not that I can remember, anyway, which is funny (by which I mean not funny) because one of the things I find most upsetting is...
"By foot it's a slow climb"
A few months ago, I remembered that the apartment building I lived in as a child had a basement. I spent a lot of time there, one way or another, between...
"Between the shore and the sea"
I’ve linked to Gabrielle Hamilton’s writing here before — on radishes with butter and salt — and last week I read another piece of hers that will stay with...
"Life just kind of empties out"
“We have to come back, and that’s what we’re aiming to do beginning on May 1,” Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) announced last week, which was why I spent half an...
"Any other world"
“Wait,” Dylan said, reading whatever the fuck I wrote and sent out the day before yesterday. “What do you mean, ‘at the beginning of this week’? Isn’t it…...
"Portions for foxes"
The beginning of this week is largely lost time for me, a handful of days that I remember in disjointed moments, shutter-flash images of places I went and...
“You’ll be better and you’ll be smarter”
I really, really loved being a woman. That’s a sentence I always end up overthinking: It sounds like an apologia for the fact that I’m not one, or not one...
"If the sun was always shining"
Granny looked up and down the square. “Besides, you can’t magic iron.”“That’s very true. Not iron. Now, someone like ole Black Aliss, they could make their...
"Come some sweet blue bonnet spring"
A funny thing about transition, for me, is that it perfectly mirrored my first adolescence despite involving an entirely different balance of hormones. First...
"One indescribable instant"
Nobody knew how to describe an instant like Natalie Babbitt, who in Tuck Everlasting describes the end of summer so perfectly that I’ve never been able to...
"I wasn't wandering in a storm"
It’s forsythia season in Cleveland. I keep forgetting that it’s spring at all and not autumn, and then I see a sheaf of bright yellow blooms and remember....
"Ever since we founded Rome"
For two months in 2018, I ran social media for a Cleveland-based lifestyle magazine that I check on every so often in the hopes that it’s folded for good. So...
"It's a Springsteen song"
Ravenna is a city in Ohio with a beautiful name, miles of space, and more horses than I’m used to seeing on an hourlong drive. It has its own Wikipedia page,...