I’m just constantly re-amazed at how ugly I actually am.
Molly Osberg
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Molly Osberg is a writer on the East Coast who reports on crime, class, and the U.S. healthcare system. Her work has been anthologized in the Best American Science and Nature Writing collection.
This was wonderful, thank you.
Very cool story. Would love to see photos of the camper? I always felt like a modest-sized camper would be a lot less work than one of those monster ones.
I wanna be your mom when I grow up!
Just camped at Zion NP, and shared the campground with an older single lady who had a unique single-person camper and would give you a talk & tour about how she was self-sustaining and it all just worked for her. Read more
OMG I love your mom TO DEATH! It is my dream to be a camper once my 9-5 existence ends. I can’t wait!
I already like your Mom! And I’ll probably be doing the same in a few years (I hit 60 a year ago...)
I think you’re cool, mom. Read more
This is very well put. In particular, thank you for this: Read more
I was a runner before Covid struck (probably 3-4 days/week reliably), but the spring 2020 surge and the correlating work stress from working in health care drove me to increase my mileage and get outside every single day, regardless of temperature or weather. At a certain point, I realized that this was a coping… Read more
I can’t see the name “Jeff Sharlet” without thinking of the Bravermountain dog named after him.
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was really hoping this pandemic would break us out of the current insane trajectory our country and global society was on. all that’s gone. i really see no hope for addressing climate change, no hope in addressing income inequality, no hope in addressing political corruption. it’s done. i feel jaded and hopeless about… Read more
At one point I tried to start writing some things down, figuring I would leave it for my grandkids, if I ever have any. But it just kind of petered out, and I haven’t written anything for months. It got to be too much. How many times can I write, “I just can’t f*ing believe this”?
In Carthage? Definitely. Also depends on how you define “addition.” I grew up in what is considered a moderately sized town in Maine, and this family down the road built an “addition” on their house by buying an old school bus, removing the seats and the rear emergency exit door, backing it up to their house and… Read more
honestly, very respectfully—you are my queen
Did you hear about our loons? Read more
As someone who has lived in Bangor most of her life, I can attest- it really do be like that.
Like. I love it here so much but sometimes I forget about what this all must look like to people from away.
fuck off
Living by myself so fucking my roommate sounds perfect to me.
ah fuck, ya got me