Stan Lee died. I knit a hat of Handmaid-red wool yarn, $36 a skein, then ripped it all out when I dropped a stitch. I learned that 3 billion people live in Extreme Poverty. Like the rest of America, I watched the video of the bear cub falling down a mountain–end up getting hurt–when the […]
That picture of you standing in nature with your arms stretched to the sky should never have been taken. The moment called for private reflection. You experienced your own revelation, removed from indifferent humanity.
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We are living in a feminist dystopia. Nobody has more independent woman street cred than yours truly, the Academic Redneck. I traveled the world by myself in my twenties. I waited to marry until I was in my mid-thirties. Now in my fifties, I am child-free by choice. I never had an abortion, but I
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Welcome to Emily’s Corner. This is a corner of the world you have not seen before because it only exists in my head: a place my inner Mom sends me when my thoughts are too much to handle and I need a time-out. While it’s not a hard corner you’d be afraid to bump into every time
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What do supporters of President Trump understand that his critics don’t? In other words, what do Trump supporters get right about America? It is not an exaggeration to say that I haven’t seen the country this divided since the Sixties. During my high school and college years, Civil Rights marches, Vietnam War protests, and multiple
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I look at old photos of myself from twenty or thirty years back. Then I look in the mirror, and the man who stares back is nearly unrecognizable to me. I remember as a child wondering why my father had such a big belly, and “couldn’t he do something about it?” It was kind of
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