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350 posts, newest first by year.
2017
- The Sauce Situation
- The Shelf That Required Two People (Technically)
- The Thing the Room Is Waiting For
- Three Flights
- The Trailhead Was Just There
- The Lanyard Goes in the Bag
- The Hike That Didn't Get Announced
- Fifteen Minutes Was All It Took
- Two Inches of Shade
- The Algorithm Was Right
- The Good Dryer
- The Window Was Already Open
- The Sentence at the End
- What the Paper Knows
- What the Forward Fold Knows
- What the Margin Said
- The One-Drink Agreement
- Smaller Than I Thought
- The Ending We Did Not Ask For
- Two Numbers on the Counter
- Lemonade, Midnight, No Regrets
- The Long Way Around a Short Answer
- The Cake Was Worth It
- The Starter Situation
2016
- The Week That Doesn't Count
- The Four-Tier Problem
- Flashcards vs. a Highlighter
- The Pleating Problem
- What Sunday Mornings Know
- The Thing I Keep Not Writing Down
- The Research I Definitely Didn't Do
- The Booth Next to Ours
- First Day of the New Thing, Sort Of
- I Knew Nothing, It Turns Out
- The Straw Thing
- Smaller Than Expected
- The Salt Thing
- One Question
- The Productivity Defense
- The Call That Ran Long
- The Neighbor Stayed Three Hours
- The Plant Had It Coming
- Seven Things, None of Them the Thing
- The Cracker Debrief
- The Pause Button as Coping Mechanism
- Just Your Hands
- What Your Hands Already Know
- Eight Feet Felt Like Something
- The Hydrangea Situation
- The Link She Sent
- The Bread Machine Situation
- Three Sentences to Carol
- The Green Ink Problem
- The Book That Kept Us There
- The Cumin Situation
- The Honey Jar Argument
- We Signed Up for Level Two
2015
- The Form Was Already Open
- The Part Where Looking It Up Was Already the Answer
- The Discover Weekly Explanation
- The Cranberry Sauce Situation
- The Shoe Was Already Dead When We Got There
- The Second Tuesday
- What the Shoes Had to Do with It
- The Chalk Comes Off Eventually
- The Mug Was Hot When I Made It
- The Part Where I Registered and Then Immediately Panicked About Something Else
- One Block Over
- The Laundry Has Been Clean for Three Hours
- Six Feet, More or Less
- August Doing What August Does
- Late July, Roughly
- What July Does When It Stays Too Long
- The Week Two Things Hit at Once
- The Number on the Paper
- The Axe and the Aftermath
- Pending the Kiln
- After the Clay
- The Third Trip Up
- Three Hours Standing, Zero Complaints
- The Bookshelf Stayed Downstairs
- Week Two, No Bowl, Full Attendance
- What the Wheel Knows
- We Filled Out the Form
- The Circle Before the Commitment
- The Wednesday Theory
- The Image Did Most of the Work
- Smaller Than I Remembered
- What I Went Back For
- Two Stops East, Four Hundred Geese
2014
- The Light on the First
- Four Gifts and No Tape
- The Geo gra phy I Already Had
- The Day After, and a Very Serious Chicken
- The Longest Three Weeks of Absolutely Nothing
- The Storefront I Keep Returning To
- There Is No Sheriff Here
- Forty Varieties
- The Cardigan in Question
- Everything Moved and I Did Not Ask
- The Air Changed Overnight
- The Cups Went Cold
- The Pigeon Was Not Sorry
- Three Frames, One Answer
- The Middle One
- The Strap Was Not Latched
- The Fire Escape Cooperated
- The Second Bag Was Mine
- The Hydrant Was There and So Was I
- The Grass Was Wet and I Stayed Anyway
- Gerald Gets a Neighbor
- The Light Was There When I Picked It Up
- The Salt Shakers Were Very Clean After That
- The Eggs Were Fine, Actually
- Pivot. No, the Other Way. No,
- It Pivots, We Were Told
- The Last Thing I Wrote About February
- I Signed Up and Then I Showed Up
- The Particular Stillness
- After the Call
- The Bag Is in the Bagging Area
- Two Minutes in the Breakroom
- What Simone Said on the Slow Tuesday
- The Brochure I Didn't Throw Away
2013
- The Pause Before the Mascara
- Longer Than We Meant To
- The Whale Was Just the Beginning
- What the Brain Does With That
- The Lobby in November
- Just Me and the Vacuum of Space
- The Particular Quality of Fluorescent Light
- The Part Where Nobody Goes Home Yet
- The Playlist I Built and iTunes Ate
- The Number I Wrote Down in July
- I Told Her About It
- The Rigatoni Question
- After You Mail It
- The Lip Liner I'd Given Up On
- What You Do With the Quiet After
- All the Quarters We Had
- Why I Always Sit by the Windows
- The Man Who Ordered Black Coffee and Wanted Nothing Else
- The Ring Mark on the Table
- Two Sentences Back
- The Three Seconds Before You Know What Your Face Is Doing
- What the Not-Saying Sounds Like
- Four Minutes and Then You're Registered
- What Naming Someone Actually Costs
- We Actually Finished
- One Drink, They Said
- Technically I Did Something
- We Said Two Hours
- The Yes I Didn't Think About
- Basically Darts, She Said
- Already the Same Room
- The Thing I Agreed To Before I Saw It
- The Wall Had Notes
2012
- What the Comment Said, Specifically
- The Radiator's Terms
- The Mirror Gives No Notes
- Thanksgiving and the Toast Situation
- The Username
- Thinner Is Not a Feature, Simone
- The Sentence That Wasn't Mine
- The Pigeon Who Had Opinions
- What My Legs Remembered
- One of Us Made a Bowl
- Two Seconds at the Coffee Cart
- What I Did with the Two Seconds
- The Honey Jar, Drawn
- The Yellow Kayak
- Batman Came Up and We Were There for Forty-Five Minutes
- His Name Is Marcus
- The Radish Problem
- Gerald Witnessed Everything and He Will Not Be Testifying
- Midnight and a Parking Lot and Aliens, Probably
- Table Seven, Again
- The Cheese Incident, Documented
- Tuesday Is Not Wednesday and My Arms Know It
- Third Viewing, No Notes
- The Tree Did Not Ask Permission
- One Footnote and Then Four Hours
- May the Odds (and the AMC Parking Situation) Be Ever in Your Favor
- The Wrung-Out Feeling
- The Photo I Haven't Done Anything With
- Man, I Feel Like a Tuesday
- Rosewood, More or Less
- The Mail Slot Makes a Sound Either Way
- The Foot Goes Where, Exactly
- Forty-Eight Quarters
2011
- The Week That Isn't Really a Week
- The Wall Was My Best Friend
- Four Cans of Chickpeas
- Rectangles and Pie
- The Last Quarter Mile
- I Had a Whole Script
- The Honey Was Worth It (Mostly)
- The Keys Were Right There
- Rectangles, Mostly
- Hot Coffee, Wrong Destination
- The Coat Was Right There
- The Fire Escape, Three Times
- The Tab I Hadn't Opened
- Low Heat, Apparently
- The Boiling Water Revelation
- Twelve Hours and Worth It
- July Fourth, Accounted For
- One Page of Rectangles
- A Flyer and Two Strangers Who Don't Know What They Started
- What Handwriting Looks Like
- Forty Minutes with a Pigeon
- Two Comments, One Ordinary Post
- Every Word, Apparently
- Eleven Minutes I'm Not Getting Back
- Miles, Mood, and What the Notebook Knows
- Pasta, Probably Tuesday
- The Tuesday That Filled Itself
- Something Small I Put Out There
- The Part Where I Buy Three Pastas
- Ninety Minutes and a Cold Pot
- Just a Thing I Write
- What the Clay Kept
- New Number, Same Person
2010
- What My Brain Does When the Semester Is Over
- The Going-Away Dinner That Got Away From Us
- The Apron Thing (And Other Things I Did Not Anticipate)
- Who Is the Reader
- The Brochure Doesn't Have to Mean Anything Yet
- The Brochure I Picked Up Just to Look At
- The Class That Named What I Was Already Doing
- Soup, Basically from Scratch
- The Umbrella Had No Business
- Someone Read to the End
- The Night I Stopped Negotiating With Myself
- A Name I Wasn't Expecting
- The Room Where I Had to Show Up
- Twenty-Seven Exposures of Mostly Gerald
- The Rice Was Both Things at Once
- The Thursday I Didn't Talk Myself Out Of
- Four Tries and a Very Sad Cup
- The Bread I Did Not Buy
- Two Hours I Didn't Plan For
- The Bird Did That
- The Heat Came Back and I Just Let It
- The Coin Count
- The Text Was Fine. I Was Not Fine.
- Her Name Took Up More Space Than Expected
- The Call and the Floor
- The Mirror Does Too Much
- The Trees Were the Plan
- Her Name Is Sophie
- The Draft That Knew Before I Did
- The Cold Is Just Standing There
- The Starter and I Are Both Works in Progress
- What I Actually Meant to Say
- The Kettle Corn Was Worth It
- The Lake Was Frozen and I Drove There Anyway
2009
- What I Did Instead of Making Resolutions
- The Longest Night (Literally, It's the Solstice)
- The Sock That Outlasted October
- The Essay
- The Fourth Draft Was the Last One
- Wrong Turn, Better Route
- The Tab I Closed
- The Woman at the Pay Phone
- Her Name Is on the Page Now
- Two Documents Walk Into a Living Room
- The Candle You Actually Remember
- The Waterfall Was Real, The Snacks Were Insufficient
- The Lopsided Bowl Situation
- The Tab I Closed on Purpose
- The Part Where You Already Know What Happens
- Nine PM and Counting
- Forty Minutes in Any Direction
- Four Stars, One Broken Skip Button
- Something That Actually Required a Pot
- Tuesday, 9:47pm
- What I Did With May
- The Kind of Rabbit Hole You Don't Mind Falling Into
- The Parking Lot Part
- Twenty Candles and One Ruined Sleeve
- What I Did With the Draft
- The Night I Made a Sad Volcano
- Did You Find Everything Okay
- The Sentence That Wasn't Mine
- Forty Minutes There, Two Hours of Dark, Forty Minutes Back
- One Bunch of Tulips for No Reason
- The Footnote That Got Out of Hand
- Running Alone Is a Different Sport
- The Pigeon Who Moved In Without Asking
- The Midnight Plan I Made at 9pm
2008
- Happy Gotcha Day, You Demanding Little Dog
- The Trail Was Half Ice and I Went Anyway
- The Great Pasta Experiment (Results: Inconclusive)
- The Part Where I Got a Little Lost
- The Raccoon Situation
- The One Circled Thing
- 3.1 Miles and Change
- A Tuesday That Asked Nothing of Me
- The Pasta Experiment (A Crime Scene, Technically)
- The Prompt That Knew Too Much
- Everything Except My Legs
- The Wrong Part Got All the Attention
- The Draft I Wasn't Going to Show Anyone
- What the Clay Decided
- The Bird That Stayed
- The Cardinal Didn't Know It Was Doing Me a Favor
- The Paragraph That Beat Me
- Five Dollars and I Lost My Mind a Little
- The List Did Something I Didn't Ask It To
- A Wednesday, Technically
- The Part Where I Pretended I Was Fine in the Parking Lot
- The Part Where You Say It Out Loud
- Everything I Made Is Technically a Bowl
- The Succulent Will Survive (Probably)
- Lauren Conrad Did Not Have to Do Me Like That
- Certified Mail and Other Things Nobody Explains
- I Did the Midnight Showing and I Regret Nothing (Mostly)
- Everything I Own That Might Be Worth Something
- The Part Where Someone Else Knew
- I Don't Know (Said Out Loud, In Front of Everyone)
- Forty Minutes and a Frozen Lake
- The Silk Road Did Not Ask for My Time and Yet Here We Are
- Six Degrees and Counting
2007
- December 26th and My Legs Are Filing a Complaint
- The Spreadsheet That Told the Truth
- 3.1 Miles and a Lot of Feelings About It
- Thanksgiving Eve, and I Only Dropped One Thing
- The Number I Wasn't Ready For
- The Part Where I Didn't Leave Early
- Four Loads and a Very Good Reason to Go to Bed Early
- The Part Where I Actually Went
- The Post I Didn't Mean to Write
- Found Money and the Specific Joy of It
- Seven Words and a Very Long Walk to My Car
- Her Name Is Sophie
- I Made Food Today. Real Food. Allegedly.
- I Hit Submit and Then Sat Very Still for Ten Minutes
- The Cat That Wasn't Mine
- The Machine Always Wins on a Holiday Weekend
- The Art of Sitting in the Yard and Calling It a Plan
- The Night I Bought One Ticket
- Two Cups and a Lesson in Not Walking Away from the Toaster
- Five Hundred Miles and One Very Stolen Afternoon
- The Manuscript That Ate My Evening
- The Bowl That Should Not Exist (And Why I'm Keeping It)
- Two Weeks Out and I've Already Reorganized My Highlighters Twice
- The Windows Have Been Closed Since November
- Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner (And Nobody Can Make Me Feel Guilty About This)
- Just Me, a Canyon, and a Gas Station Hot Chocolate