Tag: personal essay
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Saturday at the Thrift Store
The Music Behind Intention Last weekend I took a small trip with a friend to a local thrift store. It was the kind of place filled with narrow aisles and quiet clutter—rows of old kitchen appliances that I had last seen in my grandmother’s kitchen, shelves of mismatched mugs, boxes of faded board games, and…
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Frankenstein, Reproductive Power & the Responsibility of Creation
An Open-Thought Reflection for Women at the Crossroads of Choice (For Women Not Currently Pregnant – Possibly Waiting on Results…) Yesterday, I finished reading Frankenstein — Mary Shelley’s original 1818 novel — and I was struck not just by its gothic power, but by how deeply it speaks to reproduction, creation, and the fear that…