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Blue Phlox

Blue phlox. The color of my childhood room. Not quite purple, not quite blue, and the perfect color for me. I don’t remember how I decided on the color. I do remember going to Home Depot and getting...

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Dragging the Reader Along Until the Last Page

The back cover synopsis of Bernard Cooper’s book Maps to Anywhere, explaining how Cooper “digs into the glimmering surface of the southern California landscape, observing the collision of the American...

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Calculus for the Auditory Learner

He pulls my exam from a stack, looks through the first three problems, commenting on my understanding of logarithms. He pauses on problem four, and silently flips through the remaining pages. I sit in...

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Upper Crust

Everything is bathed in a soft light as home cooks enter the MasterChef kitchen. It looks like a dream. Stainless steel everything. Ovens have windows so you can peek at your food without letting the...

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Indulge in Subversion with Cameron Diaz in “Bad Teacher”

NOTE: Written for a class assignment where we had to choose a “bad” movie with the following criteria: 1. Score 50% or less on Rotten Tomatoes. 2. Not be a “box office hit.” 3. Not be a “cult classic.”...

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A Guide on Living Your Creative Life

You’re forgiven if you expected Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert to have the same whiny voice as Eat Pray Love. You’re also forgiven for taking the summary on the back,...

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The Power of Observation Applied with Wit

In Rants from the Hill: On Packrats, Bobcats, Wildfires, Curmudgeons, A Drunken Mary Kay Lady & Other Encounters with the Wild in the High Desert, Michael P. Branch applies his keen eye for...

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Skillfully Using the Double Vantage Point in “Educated”

It doesn’t take long to get sucked into Tara Westover’s memoir, Educated. Her descriptions of scenery, people, and actions are vivid and sometimes poetic. The real beauty of Educated, however, is...

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The Chronicles of Riley: 4 Days In

This is Riley, a 9-week old rescue I adopted on Wednesday. Riley all tuckered out from the morning. He’s adorable, and has been my shadow. His little feet pad behind me, sometimes in front of me,...

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Chronicles of Riley: A Milestone

Big milestone today: Riley went into his crate himself! We spent the day working on sit and stay. He has sit down, even without prompting. He stays as long as I don’t open my bedroom door, then he...

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