The paint colour is a peach and pink combined; some might call it salmon, I call it depressing. Seven of us sit in silence. Adorning the walls in frames are posters of tranquil Italian scenes. There is one of an azure coloured motorized scooter and one in front of a cafe that looks inviting......
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I recently read a book called Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend, by Matthew Dicks and I started thinking about why I don’t have an imaginary friend. I can’t recall ever having one. Do I not have enough imagination that I can’t even have a friend that I made up? It is not like I......
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Why Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story Is The Greatest Movie of All Time
Shit that happens
November 19, 2019
According to Ranker, the top ten movies of all time, as voted on by their viewership, are The Godfather, Casablanca, Schindler’s List, Star Wars, The Godfather Part II, Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, Citizen Kate, Titanic, and Shawshank Redemption. I have seen all these movies, and they are lovely motion pictures, all of them, but......
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It was decades ago that my grandmother collected coupons from the A&P grocery store. The goal was to amass enough from her weekly grocery purchases to get an entire set of dishes to give to her granddaughter when she was to leave home. I was in middle school and chose the blue stoneware versus......
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I was on our front stoop listening to how the meek will inherit the earth from two, well-dressed, readers of scripture. While I was trying to evaluate my own life (read: figure out how to politely removed the Jehovah’s Witnesses from our front stoop without resorting to retrieving my tarot cards) when I looked......
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