EJ's Word House

Untidy

2008-06-05T03:44:52Z

ball of purple yarn's trailing end sweaty bandanna from that run didn't quite make it into the clothes basket plant upended sneakers peeking up from piles of exams to grade bills to file my CD cases splayed open one ibuprofen on shore leave from...

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The 'M' word

2008-06-04T03:12:19Z

Did any of you grow up in the era of the Rice Purity Test? I realize that there are other purity tests and can imagine that this particular bit of high school social hazing may have been in vogue long before or after the period I am thinking of. H...

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Wishful thinking?

2008-06-03T03:01:08Z

I was standing in an ice cream store with a friend last week when he started a conversation about wishes. I don't think he was taking the topic as seriously as I was and we got into an argument --for several reasons-- but I'm sure in part because ...

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Yesterday, on planet earth

2008-06-02T04:36:56Z

The sun blared out with burlesque boldness, no longer reticent behind its veil of clouds. The woman on the street in front of me waved her dollar bill in the air. "This is for you," she told the homeless woman in the lawn chair outside the Starbuc...

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Raindrops on my notebook

2008-06-01T03:51:01Z

I got chilly sitting in the park, between the iced coffee and the breeze. I tried to beat the rain home, and won. Handily. The raindrops on my notebook were empty threats from a rushing, busy, gray scale sky. Indoors was uninspiring. Dreams don'...

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Memorial Day

2008-05-31T01:58:36Z

It took me until today to figure out who I am. Thirty two years, one month, twenty-one days, nine hours and eighteen minutes. Not the hare. Not the tortoise either. Who I am is not a person I guessed, expected or planned to be. And that's okay. S...

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The music that fuels you

2008-05-27T14:58:06Z

I don't have an iPod. But I would not be existing these days if it were not for the Arctic Monkeys' "A Certain Romance" and "Fluorescent Adolescent" Thanks guys.

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Culture QotW: Travel Plans

2008-05-17T11:43:07Z

What are your travel plans for this spring/summer? Washington, DC Portland, OR Wheeeeeeeee!

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Culture QotW: School Play

2008-05-17T11:42:06Z

What role did you play in your school play? Dancer/Cruise member - Anything Goes Pit Band - Guys and Dolls, Pajama Game, Kiss Me Kate Hermia - A Midsummer Night's Dream Aunt Abby - Arsenic and Old Lace Every other show I was a properties mistre...

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Daydream

2008-05-11T01:30:44Z

It's 9:16pm and I'm in bed. Not with someone and not because I'm young enough to have a bedtime. Because I wasn't feeling so well and I wanted to snuggle down and be quiet and release my day. And dream out loud a bit. In all my searching for wha...

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