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Shutdown Sequence

Thursday, July 25, 2013

Not-quite-four years ago, I launched The Trephine, my fourth blog, with a now-deleted post reviewing a lot of painful backstory that connected old readers to my new life as a divorcee. The experience that followed has been incredibly rewarding. Some of the emails I’ve received as a result of this blog, in which strangers poured [...]

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Once more, with feeling.

Friday, July 19, 2013

I’m getting married again.
You cannot think of one marriage without the other, or at least I can’t. I squint at other second-time brides, wondering if they’re experiencing the same duality, as if they’ve walked all the way around the world only to arrive in familiar territory as completely different people.
It’s hard for me [...]

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Part 5: Thousands of “wrong!”s do make a right, after all.

Monday, June 10, 2013

Learning programming was exciting and exhausting and frustrating and scary for me, but I don’t think the technical particulars make for much of a story. What can I tell you? I studied for days, weeks, months. I steeped myself in it. I remember attending a coding workshop at one point and impressing a fellow student [...]

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Part 4: Little things add up to big things, sometimes.

Friday, June 7, 2013

If you want to work with copy for a living, you have a lot of awesome options, like writing a bestseller and getting rich and famous HA HA HA HA HA, writing award-winning screenplays, crafting hard-hitting pieces of journalism that change the world, and so on.
Unfortunately, relatively few writers wind up with cool gigs [...]

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Part 3: I boarded a sinking ship.

Sunday, June 2, 2013

I NEVER HAD TO ASK THE JUDGES TO USE IT IN A SENTENCE
I could spell the crap out of some words when I was a kid. Taking first place in the schoolwide round was a given — we won’t talk about the seventh-grade mishap that ruined my otherwise perfect streak — and my focus was [...]

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Part 2: In which algebra drives me to tears.

Monday, May 27, 2013

Just to catch you up: I learned to program when I was eleven. I loved it.
And yet, once that section of the class had ended and we moved on to another unit, I stopped programming, though I still enjoyed computers and would sit up until all hours playing video games or toying with silly novelty [...]

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Part 1: Portrait of the Blogger as a Young Programmer

Sunday, May 26, 2013

Sometime around sixth grade, I was introduced to programming by my computer-science teacher, a man who apparently had an incredibly obvious toupee.
Or so I continually heard. The man taught me two important things at that very young age: first, programming is magical, and second, I am a member of that unlucky fraction of the [...]

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Older now.

Friday, November 30, 2012

I used to dread the day when I would no longer be attractive to men. I was never a supermodel, but, thanks to obsessive spackling/whitening/dabbing/eyelash-curling tendencies and my ability to maintain a very slender figure into my thirties, I was Attractive Enough.
Or, you know, just easy prey. Only in later years did it occur [...]

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Triptych: 1.

Friday, October 5, 2012

I have never been able to stop thinking about this for very long.
On a morning in March 2011, I showed up at a meal center in order to help serve lunch to seniors in need of food, companionship, or a combination of the two.
The place was in a bad neighborhood, which meant that I [...]

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In transit.

Saturday, April 21, 2012

After I saw it a few months ago, just floating there in the sky, everything started to change.
I spent almost the entire year before that in relative unhappiness. I had nuked my entire life flat and moved to California with a guy I had known for four weeks. I did this because I didn’t think [...]

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