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On Mourning the Housewife

All right then, since we’re on Awkward Topics, let’s talk about my employment status. Let’s just go there. I suppose the technical term for me is “underemployed.” I’m not unemployed, a distinction I feel is important. But the job I have is decidedly not full-time. After I graduated with my MFA in 2008 (yeah, we’ll go [...]
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Doing Laundry

Yesterday morning, I separated a literal mountain of clean clothes on the bed (clothes to be hung up, jeans to be folded, socks to be put away, and so forth), but I had to go out before putting them away. When I came back, this is what I found. Then, I had to go out again. [...]
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Rest

Last Sunday, I had an epiphany. Well, it had been brewing for a while, but Sunday afternoon was when I decided to get serious about it. Sometime last week, Jesse observed: “You never just sit.” I may stop for a moment, but even in my times of “rest,” I’m always consuming something or doing something—reading, checking [...]
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House Number Four

We spent a whirlwind weekend in Charlotte, house hunting for my aunt, who is moving from San Francisco to Charlotte and needs a place to rent for half a year or so. If house hunting is difficult, just try doing it for someone else! Yipes! The pressure was kind of intense, even though Joannie’s instructions [...]
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