Ordinary Canary

Last Saturday, I went with some friends out to a bar in Adams Morgan in D.C., since we were down in Virginia for the annual Misfits Thanksgiving Dinner. I got to chatting with the bartender and a friend of his and mentioned that I’d come down to visit for the holiday. I forget [...]

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Today was the first really frigid day of the year here in New York City. It’s usually just about now that I start wondering why on earth I still live here as I find new and creative ways to bundle up and start assessing my wardrobe to achieve maximum warmth without minimum mobility.
It’s [...]

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I was standing in the vestibule of the train yesterday on my way to work, knitting as I usually do. A man came up to the vestibule and stood there, waiting for the train to pull into the station so that he would be one of the first ones out.
“What are you knitting? [...]

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I’m doing my first NaNoWriMo this year. I’ve wanted to do it for years, but have always been too busy with the dual life work and school thing to be able to commit to writing 50,000 words in a month. It’s been really fun so far and I have managed to write over 9,000 [...]

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