Snippet from a short story a student asked me to read:
"Every time I look at him, his eyes take me off the face of the earth and to a world unknown."
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I’m from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, hence the Ben Franklin connection (e.g. Poor Richard’s Almanac). Even if it’s no longer technically true, I, along with many other women, perhaps, perpetually feel like someone’s daughter. And my dad’s name really was Richard.
About Me
- Lauren
- Someone once referred to me(affectionately, I think) as a real "Northeast" kind of woman. I suppose that's true. My favorite thing to write is creative nonfiction.
My favorite online petit fours...
Ill-Chosen Words
- college students
- writing
- parents
- women
- alcoholism
- relationships
- sense of place
- Graduate School
- Miami
- adolescence
- love
- mental illness
- vanity
- Florida
- Pirates
- alcohol
- condo life
- contact lenses
- diaries
- family
- golden retrievers
- meditation
- memoir
- movies
- poetry
- racism
- teaching
- transportation
- updates
- Allentown
- Bluefly
- Bread
- Coke
- Commencement
- Cuba
- Emotions
- Florida Keys
- Golden Katong
- Graduation
- Joan Didion
- Juicy Couture
- Kanye West
- Movie Ratings
- Nantucket
- Othello
- Pears
- Perky Bat Tower
- Pesto
- Pottery Barn
- Sensitivity
- Sweeney Todd
- Thai food
- The Year of Magical Thinking
- This Film is Not Yet Rated
- Toledo
- bats
- bipolar disorder
- bookstores
- bus stations
- cars
- cats
- divorce
- dogs
- driving
- drugs
- ego
- eyeglasses
- fashion
- femme fatales
- fiddleheads
- film noir
- food
- fun
- funerals
- gender
- heritage
- high school
- history
- holidays
- homosexuality
- hurricanes
- introduction
- kalamata olives
- limericks
- lists
- loss
- marriage
- old age
- pastilitos
- phobias
- politics
- pop culture
- poverty
- pride
- puppies
- rap music
- self image
- sexuality
- slavery
- tequeños
- trains
- tuna
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