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The year was 1846. The potato blight wasn’t new; it had first started turning potato crops across Ireland to black mush during the harvest of 1845. But in 1845, it had blighted only about [...]

The news of Bob’s death found its way to me on Facebook. It was probably appropriate, although it felt not so much so. I hadn’t seen him in years, and dated him only a few times. But [...]

I am tired. My elbow has a weird rash I only get when my belly is not feeling quite right. I fall asleep shortly after 9:00 p.m., and wake up gasping at around 3:00 a.m. nearly every night, some [...]

Today, NaNoWriMo begins. (NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month, an activity that many writers engage in in November, in which we aim to write 50,000 words in one month). It is 9:43 [...]