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Honoring Our Ghosts
Death is like painting rather than like sculpture, because it’s seen from only one side. —Peter Schjeldahl Annunciation… The syllables follow along the…
Dec 16, 2022
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Michael Robins
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October 2022
Repeat as Necessary
Over the winter break, the teachers union and the city of Chicago fail and fail again to reach an agreement over Covid protections during the Omicron…
Oct 13, 2022
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Michael Robins
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August 2022
The Light of this Hour
With travels and full-time parenting during the summer months, I’ve taken an unintentional hiatus from my notebooks, not to mention the cursor I can…
Aug 8, 2022
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Michael Robins
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May 2022
Little Engines of Connection
The name of the title is first to go / followed obediently by the title, the plot, / the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel / which suddenly…
May 23, 2022
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Michael Robins
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March 2022
All the Days of Your Life
This dispatch is longer and took a little more time than I’d hoped, thanks in part to an icy path that honored me with a mild concussion. I’m okay now…
Mar 25, 2022
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Michael Robins
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February 2022
One of Seven Hundred
I was nearly finished with high school when I first imagined I could be a writer. Once word spread, I received a number of journals from well-meaning…
Feb 19, 2022
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Michael Robins
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Like the Beam of a Lightless Star
Every year without knowing it / I have passed the day / When the last fires will wave to me / And the silence will set out / Tireless traveler / Like…
Feb 2, 2022
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Michael Robins
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January 2022
I'm So Glad You're Here
As we stand, slouch, or slump at the beginning of 2022, I invite you to take a moment to look back and recognize those events, big and small, that have…
Jan 4, 2022
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Michael Robins
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December 2021
Who We Used to Be
Our psychology teacher, Mrs. Ramsey, pushes play and introduces us to Clive Wearing, a conductor and musician who, at age forty-six and the height of…
Dec 14, 2021
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Michael Robins
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November 2021
The Year of Lists
Like anyone who has lost a partner, I faced a rather tedious and seemingly endless series of tasks. My to-do list grew, even as I worked to make it…
Nov 4, 2021
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Michael Robins
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October 2021
Translations in Water
The ocean was unusually clear during our visit to the Outer Banks, so I traded my sunglasses for my daughter’s snorkel mask and searched the water for…
Oct 14, 2021
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Michael Robins
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September 2021
Everyone You Know
In the small diary where we took turns writing a few sentences after our children were born, Valerie often mentions the little benchmarks. “Today you…
Sep 20, 2021
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Michael Robins
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