You just finished reading your emails and all you know is some poor customer service rep at Denver Health is going to get an earful on their first day back from the holidays. Your fourth surprise medical bill this year will bring your total to $600 for three well visits. You thought well visits were […]
Tag: America
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I’ve felt like I can’t write about anything until I write about this. But I also can’t write about this. So no writing for me, it seems. It’s not like this is any excuse, you know, but I was already mad. I was already mad about the kids getting killed at schools and people getting […]
I went to Aspen
And it had the nicest public restrooms I’ve ever used in my life. (Close second goes to Santa Barbara California.)
Time off
What makes the difference between a trip and an adventure? It is the length of the journey? Or the space between you and home? Are adventures built from no cell phone reception? Or from sleeping on the ground? Or from not knowing what’s next? From being lost–or at least feeling lost? I went away last […]
This version of you is my favorite version
In the park I practiced handstands against a tree. People passed by with their signs, Black Lives Matter and Defund the Police, on their way to the protest. Someone in a full Spiderman costume asked if I could teach him how to do handstands. At the vigil people handed out candles and neighbors gave each […]
An empty page
In honor of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor.
Day 20: the collective, the enforcer
Welcome to our brand new world! In a matter of weeks a country of over 300 million people of all shapes, sizes, colors, and belief systems has put itself on lockdown. (Mostly.) While a giant Cheeto tries to sell malaria drugs from his pulpit, local officials and individuals enforce the greatest national feat that I […]
The weird thing about dictatorships
You get blog posts all week. Why? Because I just remembered that we live under a fascist government now. (Yeah sometimes I forget.) Things that happen in dictatorships:1. Children get lost, go unaccounted for, die in government custody. 2. The current regime uses their power to delegitimize the people who previously held power. 3. The […]
Vote
IDK if you heard but we’re voting republicans out of office today.
Imagined community: a plea
An imagined community (a concept from Benedict Anderson’s 1983 book of the same name) is a community so large that it is impossible for members of this community to ever know or meet all of its other members. Since interpersonal connection cannot provide a basis for this kind of community it relies on other foundations […]
Anne Foster 