Out of Order
In summertime, a small group of white, middle-aged, well-educated men were obsessed with my ass.
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Posts Tagged: mountains
Breaking and Burning
They pin him down and I stick him. I am relentless. This disease is relentless. And I am so pissed off.
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The Girl Who Wanted to Fly
We handled almost everything differently, her way of seeing the world so different from mine. She wanted to fly; I wanted to stay on the ground.
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The Last Book I Loved: Solo Faces
Reading Solo Faces, I felt like I was peering into a life Matt and I once longed for, one I never entered completely.
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Against Everything
The mountains of Alabama are small mountains—foothills, really—but they are mine like a sports team is mine—like a football game (which I have for so long been near but have not really, really seen) is mine—as in the phrase “We scored! We scored!”
...moreLife in a Yurt
In 2009, Molly Caro May decided to move to Montana with her husband. They settled into a handmade yurt in which the couple has now lived for more than five years. May collected her experiences living in the mountains in a new memoir, The Map of Enough: One Woman’s Search for Place. Over at the […]
...moreDan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The important questions: what can we learn about a whale from its earwax? Can we just talk about this US spy rocket logo for a second? In 1938, a scientist recorded the heartbeat of a man being executed. Medieval diseased bones now in 3D! Here are some beautiful old charts of mountains’ and rivers’ comparative […]
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