December 31, 2015 / Maisie Smith
On this day last year, I was still deciding what I wanted my “word” to be. How could I wrap up everything I wanted to be and do into one simple word? It seemed like an impossible task. I eventually picked ADVENTURE to guide me through the year. It was an element lacking in my life, one that […]
read full articleNovember 26, 2015 / Maisie Smith
“Keep.” “Keep.” “Keep.” I was rifling through the kitchen pantry, classifying an overwhelming collection of non-perishables into one of two categories. “Hmmmmm. Pickled beets.” Slight pause. “Give.” I placed the can on the dining room table. Spaghetti-o’s that were just a tad (3 months) past the expiration date. “Give.” A bottle of specialty hot sauce […]
read full articleOctober 29, 2015 / Maisie Smith
Ten minutes had gone by and I still hadn’t thought of a good response. There I was, sitting at my desk, eyeballs locked on my Twitter feed. Typing, pausing, erasing, typing, pausing, erasing, typing, pausing, erasing. I was paralyzed by a moment of relentless un-cleverness. Fuck it. I finally wrote: “Thanks for the Twitter love!” Someone had […]
read full articleOctober 22, 2015 / Maisie Smith
It was a starry night, one of those miraculous evenings where the Milky Way stretched its long legs across the sky. I scrunched down into my wobbly camping chair and gawked at the great expanse above me. How was it possible to feel both tiny and significant at the same time? Four of us were […]
read full articleOctober 8, 2015 / Maisie Smith
Claudine, a surly fourth-grader who loved wearing Nike hi-tops, literally kicked me off of her seat and onto the dirty school bus floor when I was 8 years old. Our dance of defiance went on for weeks. I’d sit, she’d kick… until a girl named Kiersten scrunched over and let me sit next to her. […]
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