Catalectic

Catalectic

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What does 'Catalectic' mean, anyway?
I had that question, too.
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But What if I'm a Donkey?
Scattered thoughts on heartbreak, cages, and Glennon Doyle
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Knackered
There’s a coffee shop on Main Street in Warrenton where I’ve taken to reading stories.
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Confessions of a Restaurant Hostess
Barcelona Wine Bar always had a two-and-a-half to three-hour wait list. We maintained it with paper and No. 2 pencil. When the line got that long I…
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F-Cups and Fluorescent Lighting
(Thoughts on lingerie and reading Grace Paley in a post-Roe era)
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A Whale of a Problem
Mark is cheating on us. He delivers the news matter-of-factly, almost under his breath, to fill an already awkward pause in conversation. None of us…
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Be back soon...
I’ve gotten a few really kind e-mails lately asking if I’m OK and when I’ll be back on Substack, and the answer is yes yes yes, soon!
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One Reason I Hate Ice Breakers is I Always Overshare
If you could have dinner with anyone, dead or alive, who would it be and does this exercise make you as uncomfortable as it does me?
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Book Review Contest Winner: Love in the Time of Incarceration
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Here's a Quarter
Thoughts on the deepening rift between Miley and Billy Ray Cyrus
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Hyperbaric Oxygen & Finnegan's Wake
I should be in an airport in Miami right now, en route to Costa Rica, for a writing retreat.
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Calcification
Have you ever heard a friend’s work voice for the first time? he asks. The question throws me back to cusp-of-30; Friends who talk system integrations…
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Goat Yoga
My mom asks how it went last night. Was I performing? Or just seeing a friend? I tell her I just went to see a friend. That’s so generous, she says…
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Poetry on Vintage Tea Towels
A Story for the MOTH
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Catalectic
Catalectic
ii. incomplete; partial; not affecting the whole of a substance
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