Category: politics
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The Newsletter: Issue #17
Ugh. Around the World The Queen died! I get it: everyone has a different relationship with the tabloid family. The memes, of course, have been amazing and on point. The British were colonizers, I think we all need to remember that. But I also can accept that a lot of people have a complex relationship…
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This Is Living With COVID
A few days ago, I had an acute allergic reaction to either something I ate, or something blowing in the back window of our house. Many of you all remember, we recently moved from a mold-infested hell hole, so my body is still recovering and attempting to reduce the level of extreme inflammation that comes…
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The Newsletter: Issue #13
Welp, it isn’t Friday the 13th, but it’s Friday and this is newsletter issue #13, and I also am pretty sure I saw a ghost yesterday, so let’s call this all a sign. A sign of what though? Not sure. We’ll get to the ghost in a minute… Around the World So … monkeypox, huh?…
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Get Your Germs Away From My Ass
<CONTENT WARNING: THIS ONE IS SWEARY> We’re at the find out portion of the fuck around era, and I am not here for any of it. Get your germs away from my ass, both figuratively and literally. I thought we were getting to higher ground with the pandemic. Sure, things are kind of still a…
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And Just Like That, I’m Back Home
I haven’t posted on here in well over a month – not a matter of writer’s block or dearth of content, but the fact that we moved. Back home. Not to the home from which our landlords cruelly and callously terminated our lease at the beginning of the year (after years of dutifully paying rent…
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I May As Well Live In a Garbage Dump At This Point
I don’t know, things are getting a little harried around here. We basically live in a dumpster. All we need is a fire, and it’ll be just peachy: a metaphorical and literally version of my life since that fateful day, back in January, when our landlord terminated our lease to give the place we had…
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The Newsletter: Issue #10
So much is going on in the world, and in my world: it’s a little bit of a whirl wind. I’ve been trying to post more in general, keep up on my social media following; and to keep up on this newsletter too. So let’s get to it. Around the World Somehow I got sucked…
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The Newsletter: Issue #9
Welp folks, I’m 40. Fuck everything. I can say in all honesty that I never in a million years expected to live this long. I’m not sure why. I feel 100, and also 12. Who knows what’s next? It’s just a number, and to be honest this doesn’t really change anything at all or mean…
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So We’re In a New Home. A Rental Home.
After the traumatic experience my family of 6 has lived through over these last few months, I hesitate to call anything a “home” anymore. More than 5 years into making our place in Camarillo our home, our landlord decided to “go in another direction,” after spending years calling us the best renters they’d ever had.…
Heather Christena Schmidt 