July 1, 2011: Sharon Appleton
Today was supposed to be the last day of our family holiday to Cornwall. A holiday that has been earned and deserved over and over. But we had to come home early and it feels good to be back in...
View ArticleJuly 2, 2011: Andrea Boston
10:30am. Newark, NJ. Before the shoppers, vendors, commuters, and loiterers transform downtown into its daily marketplace, I go for a ride. It's a holiday weekend, and I'm a new cyclist. Gotta beat...
View ArticleJuly 3, 2011: Eddy Piasentin
“Come to me, all you who labour and are burdened, and I will give you rest.” -Mathew 11:28 It’s Sunday. The morning started with an uncharacteristically calm mass at Our Lady of the Rosary. It was...
View ArticleJuly 4, 2011: Damian Wanstall
Today is Independence Day in the USA ,a day typically full of big celebration! I guess today ends a big week of celebration here too. It's been a happy, happy week for many of my friends and...
View ArticleJuly 5, 2011: Adam Obendorf
Meetings. Tight deadlines. Long to-do lists. Normally I’m not a fan of these things, but today they were a blessing. They kept me busy, kept me focused and for the most part kept my mind from...
View ArticleJuly 6, 2011: Ben Hughes
It’s Wednesday, so I go to work. The doldrums are upon us – the hot, sticky center of the summer when work becomes not just difficult, but impossible. We are becalmed. So I look up from my laptop,...
View ArticleJuly 7, 2011: Peyten Dobbs
And indeed there will be time To wonder, ‘Do I dare?’ and, ‘Do I dare?’ --“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot Today, Atlantans fume over the CRCT cheating scandal that recently...
View ArticleJuly 8, 2011: Rachel McAdams
What Makes A Man? This morning, I woke up, walked outside for my first cigarette and as the heat scorched my feet, I reached instinctively to my right. He wasn’t there. He went home two days ago and I...
View ArticleJuly 9, 2011: Funkola Ani
It's Saturday and things are very laid back. I always look forward to the weekend; life just seems to spiral out of control during the week. It's been particularly out of control in the last couple of...
View ArticleJuly 10, 2011: Leslie Louie
Sundays have always lent themselves to reflection - preparing for the week, savoring and processing the weekend’s newly made memories. And today’s walk in the woods has left me smiling at my naively...
View ArticleJuly 11, 2011: Anthony Kalamut
1-4-3 Secret code? I love you? A well-played double play or the rare triple play? It’s the eve of the Major League Baseball All-Star game. This game marks the midway point of the season and for me...
View ArticleJuly 12, 2011: David Puner
A friend hands me a pile of lottery tickets and asks me to check them. The tickets bunched together are about the thickness of two Post-it Note pads. The favor seems kind of unreasonably time...
View ArticleJuly 13, 2011: Nathan Archambault
Did some think-dreaming again this morning. It’s the same routine almost every day since we moved into the new apartment. For whatever reason, I wake up way too early. So I start thinking about my...
View ArticleJuly 14, 2011: Ena Miller
I woke at 5 am. My sleep had been interrupted by dreams that had made my heartbeat faster than I would have liked. I checked my mobile and was greeted by two texts. One from my bank telling me how...
View ArticleJuly 15, 2011: Brock LeMieux
Native American tribes kept track of the seasons by giving distinctive names to each recurring full moon. July is the month when new antlers of deer push out of their foreheads. Hence the name Buck...
View ArticleJuly 20, 2011: Mara Browne
It was probably my fourth trip into Penn Station since I arrived last Friday and I suddenly realized I hadn't seen it yet. It had been there as long as I can remember- a little white sign with three...
View ArticleJuly 24, 2011: Emily Troutman
It was 97 degrees today in Washington, D.C. The air was wet. I could see it in front of me, a haze. And as I moved through the heat, I felt the edges of my body and my age. The news this week is all...
View ArticleJuly 25, 2011: Kelly Callahan
It is Monday, July 25th, 2011, and the word of the day is “faint”. faint (v): an abrupt, usually brief loss of consciousness, generally associated with failure of normal blood circulation. For me,...
View ArticleJuly 26, 2011: Whitney Perez
Sunday was my anniversary. Seven years ago, I married a wonderful man and in the years in between we've had two wonderful boys. The youngest is quiet and fearless. He'll try nearly anything without...
View ArticleJuly 27, 2011: Ivan Oransky
“Eat Naked and Reduce Blood Pressure.” That was today’s “does this PR agency’s client know they’re paying for this?” email. Like many in the genre, the email has some issues worth, um, laying bare:...
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