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  • 🧠 Brain Static #6

    Sharks are older than trees. Not a tree. Trees. Sharks were swimming around before forests existed. I don’t know why, but this makes trees feel significantly less impressive. Until next time, —Destiny P.S. What’s something you assumed had existed basically forever?

  • Sunday Things #6

    I think I accidentally opened a daycare this week. I don’t remember applying for a license. I don’t remember filling out any paperwork. But there were three children in my house for most of the week, somebody was always coughing, somebody was always pooping somewhere they weren’t supposed to, and at one point I had…

  • History After Dark #3

    The Bell Witch Where History Ends and the Haunting Begins Welcome to History After Dark. The kind of history that didn’t quite make it into your textbooks.   The Legend By December of 1820, John Bell was dying. He had been sick for some time, and whatever was happening to his body had gradually left…

  • Between the Lines #4: When the Wind Carries Secrets

    Some things are easier to say when you don’t know who’s listening. When the wind carries secrets,I wonder if mineare still looking for me. I have whispered so many thingsinto the open air—names I no longer say aloud,prayers that never reached heaven,apologies that belongedto someone else. I imagine the windkeeping them all. Tucking them beneath…

  • Learning to Look Closer #6

    see this thing all the time. It’s a sensory board we have at work, covered in hundreds of tiny sequins. The kids can run their hands across them, flip them back and forth, change the colors, make patterns, or sometimes just enjoy the feeling of them moving beneath their fingers. Normally, I see it from…

  • 🧠 Brain Static #5

    My boyfriend has a tongue tie and can’t stick his tongue out. I think it’s cute. Anyway… Crocodiles can’t stick their tongues out either. Their tongues are held in place by a membrane. So apparently my boyfriend and crocodiles have something in common. I’m sure he’ll love that. Until next time, — Destiny P.S. What’s…

  • Sunday Things #5

    Apparently, the second I started feeling better, I forgot I had surgery. Not completely. Just enough to become a problem. 😂 Last week, I was talking about how strange it felt to finally start feeling like myself again. This week? I apparently took that as a challenge. I went out to dinner. I picked up…

  • If you had a time machine and could send just one message to your past self, what would it say? If I had a time machine and could send one message to my past self, I think I’d tell her: You make it. I know you don’t believe me. Actually, I know you’re probably rolling…

  • 33 and Going Through Menopause

    33 years old and about to go through menopause for the next 3–6 months. Am I an overachiever or what? lol I had my post-op follow-up this week, and everything went really well. I’m healing better than I expected, which is a huge relief because just a week ago I was convinced this whole recovery…

  • Learning to Look Closer #5

    Sometimes looking closer means seeing something beautiful. Sometimes it means looking into your aquarium and wondering what exactly your snail thinks she’s doing. Because apparently the glass wasn’t interesting enough. The plants weren’t interesting enough. No. She needed to climb. All the way to the top. And then hang there like this was a completely…