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Continue reading →: Lack of knowledge in the garden of Eden
I find it interesting how the fall of Eden was supposedly brought about by Eve chomping into the apple of knowledge. We never question the validity of that premise. Oh yeah, she did the one thing she wasn’t supposed to do. But we’re talking about the beginning of time, humanity’s…
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Continue reading →: Coupon-clipping Porsche aficionados
To the car dealership that mailed me a coupon for a Porsche: please send me a coupon for an Aston Martin. What a random offer to receive. Bring this coupon in today and redeem for $1,500 off! What market research did this dealership do? I suppose it was just a…
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Continue reading →: Squirrel vs. Bird
I used to love squirrels. Until I hung a bird feeder. Having moved to the suburbs, I was going to enjoy bringing all the birds to my yard. Fancying myself an amateur birder, I anticipated seeing all different types, and learning how to identify them by their unique coloring and sounds.…
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Continue reading →: The Problematic Courtship of Fireflies
The firefly, known in some regions by the adorable name of peeny wally, has a few things inherently wrong with its mating process. Summer evenings in the east coast suburbs are rendered magical by flickering green lights as fireflies fill our yards. It uses a self-generated light to attract a…
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Continue reading →: Acquired Tastes
Coffee: a brilliant, blinding light from heaven They say coffee is an acquired taste. However, it is one which I instantly developed upon trying a sip from my dad’s mug at age seven. He took his coffee just as any child would – sweet and creamy. From that moment onward,…
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Continue reading →: 2020: The Year of Falls
In addition to 2020 being the year of the pandemic – social distancing, working from home, supply chain shortages, and so many other peculiarities – it was also the year I had three big falls. Fall #1: We moved from a high rise in the city to a house. Our…
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Continue reading →: Airplane Safety Demonstration
The procedure we all completely ignore before soaring to 30,000 feet Airlines sure have a lot of faith in the average person’s ability to stay calm under stress. Let’s say, for the sake of this essay, that you care enough about safety to actually pay close attention while the head…
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Continue reading →: Basement Poltergeist or Mystery Screwdriver?
A suburban horror story From our basement emanate occasional clinks and clanks, loud and urgent, like the chains dragged by Jacob Marley’s ghost in A Christmas Carol. There’s a boiler room where, behind closed door, loom all the different pipes and mechanical doodads that do who-knows-what. A few weeks after we’d…
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Continue reading →: How Imitating Groucho Marx Gave Me Shapely Eyebrows
A childhood prank gone right At the age of eight, I put on a show to cheer up my brother Ben. He, being a rowdy six-year-old, had been sent to his bedroom for bad behavior. I was in the back yard when I observed Ben peering glumly out of his…
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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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