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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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Continue reading →: Salted Bird’s Tail
A new way of birding At my annual pediatric check-up when I was seven, my mother told Dr. Roberts about my fascination with birds. She chortled as she described my repeated attempts to catch one by hand in the yard. Dr. Roberts winked at me and said, “If you sprinkle…
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Continue reading →: Zero Fs for Zero G
A demotivational children’s story When you grow up, kid, you can be anything you want to be. Except for an astronaut. Every child born since humankind first entered space has wished to be in zero G. It is not a unique dream. There are 332,624,742 people in the U.S., of…
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Continue reading →: Robots may be coming for our jobs…
But here’s why they’ll never become our overlords I don’t believe humanity’s future looks like Terminator or The Matrix, where AI takes over and crushes our bones under their feet or farms our fleshy bodies. Here’s why. Case Study #1: Technology is constantly breaking down. Case in point, my microwave…
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Continue reading →: A Name, A Name, My Kingdom for a Name
How I got my name In the late 1970’s, my mother — visibly pregnant with me — was hitchhiking in rural North Carolina. Leading my three-year-old sister Karina by the hand, they climbed into the back of a stranger’s pickup truck. With my father out of town, they couldn’t reasonably…
Hello,
I’m Angie
Residing in the New York metropolitan area, I spend much of my free time writing. I graduated from Seattle University and published my debut book, Dismantle, in 2024.
Typically writing at the intersection of memoir and humor, I aspire to publish a novel in every major fiction genre including romance with a suspense subplot, crime, and science fiction.
My goal with this blog is to offer readers a five-minute break from the monotony and stress of everyday life. Success for me is making you smile or laugh.
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