Author: Pandora

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Essay Prompt

  I am helping my niece with her college applications. This was not an obvious assignment. We did not know each other well before this new partnership. Her father, my brother, is much younger...

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Unfinished Post

I have weird hair right now. It is still dark for the most part, curly, shorter than it has been in years. But there is a haystack of grey, coarse, strange difference at the...

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What I Think of This

The server walked up and surveyed our table. “What do you think of this?” she asked. I had my head down trying to sort out what seemed like a byzantine list of options. To...

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May 1, 2019

Today is May Day. When I was a kid, we came home from school on May Day and my mother would have placed vases of flowers in our rooms. Flowers in my house were...

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Checking

I was interviewing for TSA precheck status. Sitting on a folding chair in the airport at 8:00 am in the morning, I was feeling proud for following through on what had seemed like a...

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Today

Today is my birthday. This was not the post I had planned to share. I have a draft with a tiara topped teenage memory bedazzled with poems and cake and confetti. Then my father-in-law...