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Reaction to Polley Book Thursday, January 4, 2024 Preamble After working really hard for years to recover from a concussion, I was feeling hopeless and seriously depressed. When Sarah Polley wrote her book Run Towards the Danger, people started suggesting that I read it. I read it right around the time that two doctors had…
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ii. Rainbows May 2021 Lest you begin to think that the only interrobang moment is a negative one, I’d like to share a true “is this really real or I am being punk’d and where are the cameras?!” experience I had at work. I have the good fortune to be a teacher in an elementary…
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On Suicidal Ideation December 31, 2023 This is normal… This can happen with repeat concussions… This is nothing to worry about… This is just your life now… You’re fine, everything is fine… I reassured myself as I pulled into the garage. I sat for a few minutes, breathing deeply in an attempt to slow the…
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Interrobang: The Soap Opera April 2006 “I know those dogs! I know this baby! Hello!!!” the woman chirped excitedly, quickening her steps and looking at my child in the stroller with delight in her eyes. As her gaze shifted to me, she queried “Are you the new nanny?”In an instant, my body learned the meaning…
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i. Titty Troubles November 2020 Bad mammogram. One of the scariest phrases I know. My maternal grandmother, who I look like so much it’s uncanny, had breast cancer. I have always assumed that because we are so alike genetically, it is a foregone conclusion that I will get it one day.I’d had a follow up…
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Why Interrobang?! An interrobang is this punctuation mark: ?! Interro for question, bang because in the old timey days an exclamation point was called a bang. I loved the word the second I heard it, because it is the perfect blend of huh? and WHAT! I feel that word in my soul. Interrobang is an…
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Interrobang Poem – ?! Cognitive dissonancewith a twist?And a spike!Or is it a dagger?! Twisting around in the folds of my brain,the spike is vodka, or is it tequila…Clarity.Dissonant clarity.Dagger twists and slashes open the foldswhich I have fought so hard to keep shuttered. Victorian shuttersconceal the madwoman in the attic.They fly open from time…
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Interrobang – Prologue February 2022 “Sorry, there’s no way around it, you’re going to have to get a divorce if you want to buy. Otherwise you’ll need his permission to sell eventually even if you were separated when you bought. It’s because of the dower act…” he continued explaining but all I could hear was…
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