Tag: this year 2025
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June 1st: Lily Tobias
The Story of a Day 8:30 a.m., Prelude June 1, 2025. Today is twelve years ago. This is an illogical yet true statement. 10:00 a.m., Bad Advice Sophie’s open house is today. I am fussing with my hair in the bathroom mirror. It’s at an odd length—not quite short, not quite long, seven months unevenly…
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May 29th: Hanne Williams-Baron
7:30am. I wake to the muted sounds of a robotic piano crescendoing from behind the kitchen door. I have been experimenting with “no phone in bed” this year, and find the social pressure of potentially waking up my roommates with my alarm to be enough incentive to get up and turn it off each day.…
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May 22nd: Blue Fay
I am in bed watching the Tales of Yanxi Palace with the blinds drawn. The empress is in a coma, the main character has been sent to the imperial slave house, and the emperor’s favorite concubine has just hung herself from the rafters of the Palace of Gathered Elegance. I woke up at 4.30am and…
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May 12th: Yelizaveta P. Renfro
What is today? Could it be the first day of my sabbatical? I turned in my final grades yesterday, and ahead of me still lie two hooding ceremonies, a commencement, and a colleague’s retirement party. But the teaching is over, the long slog through dark winter, and all the things along the way: reading a…
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May 3rd: Adrian J Matias Bell
i’m thinking about clothes. now that the wedding is over, all the energy my partner and i spent on planning it has been freed up, and lately i’ve felt boundless. being interested in sewing again is a huge mental health green flag for me, since sewing projects are so complex. it means my mind is…
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May 1st: Arya Samuelson
I’ve been awake for ten minutes and already I’ve descended into Phone Land and flipped through a dozen houses on Zillow – breaking two of my most recent intentions before I’m even out of bed. But the allure is too much to resist this morning – this possibility that, while I’ve been sleeping, my future…
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April 22nd: Vicki Mayk
April 22, 2025 It is the 112th day of the year. The 16th Tuesday of 2025 The 34th day of spring There are 59 days left until summer. (But who is counting?) Earth Day 7:15 a.m. The sound of someone whistling calls me awake. It’s just another weird alarm on my iPhone. It’s the cue…
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April 13th: Lisa Zerkle
Good morning, Holiday Inn Express, Charlottesville, VA! This is the third weekend in a row I’ve travelled—to LA, New York City, and now here. I live in Charlotte, North Carolina. This much travel is unusual for me. But since I accepted the thoughtful invitation extended by my husband, Andy, (more on that in a minute),…
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April 4th: Natalie Balderas-Fowler
I. Introduction April 4, 2025. You may be expecting a poet. Or a creative writer. Or an artist. You are definitely not expecting a lawyer. A government lawyer at that. Dare I say, a bureaucrat? I had anxiety about joining this project. I went back and forth on it. They don’t want to hear from…
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April 2nd: Jeanne Bonner
5:06 a.m. Last night, as we did the Wordle, Leo plugged in “merda” – a bad word in Italian – and then plugged in “merde,” (the same bad word in French), essentially showing off he can curse in multiple languages. I sometimes think of how my parents would have reacted had I pulled some of…