Someone once said that words have meaning and names have power, and it’s widely acknowledged that vessels, sea-faring and otherwise, should be named. So I knew, when I bought the van, that I would name her. But I didn’t want to rush it. I had to get to know the van a little bit first before bestowing a name upon her, and, after a few weeks of deliberation, I’ve finally settled on a name.…
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She’s a 2022 Ford Transit with all-wheel drive, a 148″ wheelbase and a high roof. She used to be a rental and, I think, was mostly used for FedEx deliveries. I went to Maryland to get her, traveling 3.5 hours on a train and then 45 minutes by car, past horse farms and mansions and rolling, rain-spattered hills.…
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March gets such a bad rap, y’all. She’s brought us a lot of chaos over the years, including a global pandemic, but she’s my birthday month, and I love her.
March is almost always a banner month for me, and this one was no different. I did a lot of things.…
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1 – MEGABABE’S GREEN DEO
I made the switch to natural deodorant when I was deployed in 2016. I was in Kuwait where daily temperatures liked to hang out in the triple digits, and I figured if natural deodorant could take care of me in that environment, it could easily handle the comparative cool of Virginia.…
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Last week, surrounded by the beauty and magnificence of Zion National Park, I turned 40. It felt like a very big deal and also like nothing at all.
Somewhere in my past, there’s a girl who can’t even fathom making it to 20, much less 40. For that girl, the present was so hard and so painful that it made thinking about the future an impossibility.…
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