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I was out there today in DC, along with the other 500,000 people walking around the streets wearing pink pussy hats (of all different shades, and I saw a blue one too, actually) and carrying signs. The rally started at 10am but I'd decided, along with a small group of friends who we informally named Battle Buddies (because within the group we each ( Read more... ) -
Apple trees are practically divinities
Inspired by asakiyume and sovay, but veering, perhaps, a bit from the original thought ( Read more... ) -
I Need Story Help!
I'm trying to find this fairytale, and google isn't being forthcoming. What's the story where this woman journeys to the underworld and trades her golden hair at one level and her pearly teeth at another level...
I don't remember the rest of the story and it's bothering me and I can't find it! Augh! -
Religious Identity and Appropriation
Someone I'm friends with on Facebook just had a bunch of stress dumped on her and her family and posted "Please be praying for us that things will fall into place quickly and smoothly. I praise Hashem for his amazing grace and his son Yeshua (Jesus) for dying on the cross. (I know not everyone believes and that is okay, but the first person that ( Read more... ) -
Conversation Etiquette
At this fair a couple weeks ago, I was in a merchandise booth looking for something and the shopkeeper asked if he could help me. I said yes, I was looking for a Turkish coffee pot. He said no, he didn't sell them, and then proceeded to have a "conversation" with me about why it's not just a Turkish coffee pot, but actually a Mediterranean coffee ( Read more... ) -
Why this journal is now friend-locked by default.
Over time these journal entries have become more personal, instead of just poems and snippets of stories and ramblings about books. I like sharing my thoughts, concerns, and musings, but I prefer not to share the more personal ones with the entire internet. I realized that I was f-locking every entry I wrote, and thought maybe, perhaps, it would ( Read more... ) -
That meme that's been floating around
Tell me about a story I haven't written and I'll give you a sentence (or a paragraph) from it. You can be as detailed or as simple as you like.
I finally decided that I have the time to respond to these...so I hope you guys give me something to play with! -
Storm
It's interesting reading all the posts about the storm, when I'm sitting in it. Somehow makes it all the more real that so many others are experiencing this very same storm that's wailing outside.
I flew home Saturday, leaving the boat a month early due to some family stuff going on. I was afraid the storm was going to come in over the weekend ( Read more... ) -
friendships over time
I met a friend from elementary school last spring. The last time we’d seen each other had been 6th grade - before puberty hit either of us - and we hadn’t been in touch since. (It was right around then that I moved five hours away, down the east coast to another state.) But I had been in touch with another girl, and, as things work, had gotten back ( Read more... ) -
Squanderball
Taken from asakiyume
She said, "It's like if I say, 'You know, the other day when I was playing squanderball,' and they just nod and say 'uh-huh,' and I'm thinking, 'They know what squanderball is? I really don't think they know what squanderball is.' And so then you give them conversational amnesty; you say, 'You know squanderball?' and then they don't ( Read more... )