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Author: anne
I ride words and I write bikes. I mean...
Fusterlandia
In 2017 two friends and I went to Havana. I liked it a lot. It was very weird. When we went, Cuba had two different currencies–one for foreigners (CUC) and one for locals (CUP). (I’ve read that this has since changed.) The two currencies worked because Cuba is socialist(-ish) so prices and salaries are fixed […]
Story about a story
Ananda Lima writes about writing in her book Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil. One chapter is a compilation of her fellow writers’ feedback on one of her stories–without including the story in question. So meta. (I like this book a lot. It’s like Carmen Maria Machado meets Pond. Read it this month.) Anyway […]
Trail of stuff
I hate leaving cars in parking lots overnight. Partly, it just makes me kind of sad to think of the car all alone over one night, or two, or three, in a strange parking lot in a wild place. I also hate the possibility of the car not being there when I get back. There’s […]
Tourist, part 1
The picture: I don’t like looking at it but I made myself look at it to write this post. It’s me and four Mayan girls. The tallest one comes up to my shoulder and the shortest one just barely reaches my hip. They are wearing skirts, sweaters and shawls all in different colors: earthy golds […]
But did you vision board it?
The shop was closed and we were sitting at the front desk when I said: “I don’t believe in fate or manifestation or anything.”Sam laughed. He said, “You say that all the time.”And I laughed too–at the honesty of it–how true it felt for him to say that–because it makes sense for me to say […]
Tall trees and surfing in the PNW
A few years ago, in the months when leaves fall from trees, Bill and I drove to Washington. We stayed in Seattle and then Port Angeles and then one day we drove south, and kind of west, from there. We got to Forks in time for a late lunch and we visited the Sasquatch store. […]
Participation points
Starting a few weeks ago I’ve been commuting from Boulder to Denver for work. It’s pretty. When I leave home I can see the mountains–they’re snow covered right now. First I get on Foothills which is a six lane Boulder thoroughfare. Then I merge onto 36. When I first started commuting I loved getting on […]
Ride slow
Ethan and I went to see The Divide at the Boulder Theater a few weeks ago. It’s a one hour documentary that follows Lachlan Morton as he rides the Continental Divide bike route at a record-setting pace. I’ve never really known much about Lachlan Morton and I’ve always been a bit averse to him (which […]
Overdue
I kept my library books for a very long time. I think I got them in April. Now it’s almost September. When the first email notification from the Denver library popped up in my inbox I was a little worried: yes we were in late territory, no I wasn’t even close to being done with […]
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