Tag: Moving
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Houses and Homes
I’ve lived in seven, or, eight, or nine apartments, houses, abodes, since I left Berkshire Court in Isla Vista (left, then returned to, but I say left for now). I’ll count them, now, on paper, because when I try to count them in my head I start remembering the details of each, I lose track…
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California
I say I didn’t plan to come back to California, yet in my own words I find contradictions to this claim. That I cannot explain why I chose to leave, that I planned to come back in two years or five years or ten, and that I refuse to give up my driver’s license in…
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In Writing
I know it’s not very zen of me, but I have been living in next January. Next January, I’ll move back to my beloved Marin hills. I’ll get a set of Eggshell pasta bowls from East Fork, they’re speckled, and they’ll compliment the dark wood paneling of the studio I’ll find, they’ll compliment the redwoods…
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Comings & Goings
I find myself in a Starbucks in Annapolis, Maryland, it’s the capital, which I remember because it’s one of the capitals in the 5th grade States & Capitals deck that is not the city you’d expect. Salem, Oregon. Lansing, Michigan. Carson City, Nevada. Olympia, Washington. But I’d no less expect to be in Baltimore than…
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Boulted Recs
The first few nights I’m in Raleigh, I sleep on my camp pad. It’s comforting, it’s comfortable, it fit in the backpack I flew here with from Denver. Or, maybe it was in my bike bag. The one that was 18 lbs over the 50 lb weight limit, and that the lady working the United…
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The Last Bit
Mom must have trained us, when we were younger. I can’t think of another explanation. It started with the outdoor pots. There were some saguaro palms, a pot of succulents, hydrangeas, and the forgotten pot of herbs. There were baby citrus trees, to be planted in the orchard come summer. There were pots below the…
Sophia Steffens 