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Recent posts
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Dramatic dance
For B.A.F. She has so many questions this summer. What are rocks? Where does water get made? What is your favorite type of gold? But where does it come from? Why is the (shallow) water yellow? Why are those balls (buoys) in the ocean? What happens if a boat flies away? What is that pink…
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Coming (again) soon
I haven’t written a post on this site since we were still very intimate with surgical masks and hand sanitizer. New project here. New post(s) coming soon.
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Wilderness
With thanks to the only Johnny O If we’re trying to find the humor in it, a funny thing about the pandemic might be the things we told ourselves about it at the outset, my favorite being that it would be over soon (also, things about toilet paper and victory gardens). Last March, I wrote…
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Passporting
With a stamp on my customs form and passage through to baggage claim, the greeting, each time, is “welcome home.” My guess is that border officials are instructed to give this specific welcome. I’m usually caught off guard by the expressiveness, the theatrics of which make me feel I’ve been caught on camera. But I…
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Cultural studies in lockdown.
Portugal, January 2021. There is a new national duty and it involves staying at home. Working from home, too. Netflixing at home, too. Eating at home, also. All restaurants are closed. And cafés, too? (Read: pastel de nata & espresso). Cafés too. Hair salons are closed. There is collective rage about this. Manicurists are closed.…
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