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I love to read fiction, memoirs, travel blogs, humorous rants, and personal essays on business and family-life… I also like to write that sort of stuff.
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From the blog
A Much Tinier Version Of Me
“Mrs. Monroe is growing a penis.” Her clever announcement to my son’s track team that she was having a baby boy. I grew a penis once. But I didn’t know it until after I pushed him out and held his tiny naked body against mine. Every secret wish I’d had was for a son. It’s…
Keep readingThe Shapes Of Our Wounds
I ran away from home over a dress. On a cold day in February my mother and I sat in the parking lot of my high school. “It’s just a dress!” I screamed at her. She didn’t think it was appropriate for my boyfriend, who she hated, to buy it for me. Too intimate a…
Keep readingJoy
Last night, my little one peed her bed, just as I was about to fall asleep. After cleaning her up, dressing her, and stripping her sheets, I was suddenly facing a whole night of her curled up against me in my bed, fighting me for my own pillow. Every dream, or discomfort of hers meaning…
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About Me
I’m Annie. I’m a mom, a wife (that’s my hubby), an upstate NY bagel shop owner (hungry now?), girlfriend, outdoor explorer… and when I need to make sense of my world, calm myself down, or jazz myself up… I write.
While I get paid for other stuff, and I take my writing for clients seriously… I go kinda crazy if I don’t make time to write what I want to write. And when I do, I publish it here… Read more