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Continue reading →: Government-issued astronaut diapers
Remember when that astronaut got busted for her ill intentions toward the other woman in her love triangle? “No, that doesn’t ring a bell.” The one who wore diapers on her road trip? “Oh, yes! That astronaut!” Everyone remembers the diapers. Everyone mocked the diapers. But I can tell you,…
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Continue reading →: Queuing for Nutella
Don’t fact check me on this, but the heavenly combination of hazelnut and chocolate became a global sensation during WWII. When supplies were in short order, they had to cut chocolate with hazelnut. And thank goodness they did, because this combination has become my favorite. I’m such a fan of…
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Continue reading →: Sweet Tooth
Scientists claim that a rat will choose sugar over cocaine any day. What I want to know is, why are these a rat’s choices? What kind of high-octane party life are these rodents living? “Welcome to the club, Mr. Rat. Would you like sugar or cocaine?” “Oh, I’d take sugar…
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Continue reading →: The Callousness of Birds
You know when you see a bird couple, you can just tell that they’re together. You look out your window and you see two doves pecking around on your lawn. I love how, when one bird feels like leaving, they just take off. They don’t tell their partner, “I’m going…
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Continue reading →: Coffee Mug, Interrupted
Upon starting as an Administrative Assistant at a manufacturing plant in New York, I was given a tour of the long building by the fifty-something head Administrator. She had short auburn curls, wore wire rimmed glasses, and kept her lips tightly pursed as though everything big or small, alive or…
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Continue reading →: A Near Drowning
I would have drowned – if I didn’t die from hypothermia first – when I was nine. My then seven-year-old brother Ben saved my life. The river near our house was half frozen over. My brother and I walked out onto the thick sheets of ice and peered down into…
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Continue reading →: Suddenly Old
The moment you realize you’re old. It comes for all of us. For me, it started when I asked the twenty-something hostess for plastic cutlery to go with my take-out. She met my gaze with a blank stare. “Cutlery?” I repeated. Still, she looked confused. “A fork and knife?” I…
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Continue reading →: Who’s got time for a midlife crisis?
I’ve entered my midlife crisis while raising a 3-year-old. Which means I’m questioning what I want my legacy to be, but I’m too busy to give it as much thought as I’d like. Meanwhile, I don’t have the disposable income to buy a sports car and feel the wind in…
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Continue reading →: Eat, Pray, Live
I escaped the east coast winter for five magical days in San Diego I didn’t speak to my younger sister for ten years. For an entire decade it was as though she had never existed. She who, as a little girl, sat on our shared bed holding her blankie and…
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I’m Angie
Residing in the New York metropolitan area, I spend much of my free time writing. I graduated from Seattle University and regularly return to Gotham Writers Workshop to keep my skills sharp.
Typically writing at the intersection of memoir and humor, I am currently refining several manuscripts that fall into the graphic novel, crime, and science fiction categories.
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