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Ponderings

Journal entry: Preparing to embrace the darkness

March 24, 2020April 4, 2020by Jen RiceLeave a Comment on Journal entry: Preparing to embrace the darkness
Journal entry: Preparing to embrace the darkness

It's March 24, 2020. The exponential math of coronavirus is starting to kick in, and I'm hunkered down in Tbilisi, Georgia. I'm realizing that I never finished writing about my travels, so I open my journal and go back to summer of 2019, in the Baltics. And I find gold. The solitude that everyone is [...]

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We find belonging in our darkness

September 22, 2019by Jen Rice4 Comments on We find belonging in our darkness
We find belonging in our darkness

My biggest problem is that I look too normal. If you didn’t know me -- heck, even if you do -- my appearance would lead you to a pile of incorrect assumptions:  that this tall, slender, blue-eyed blonde has always been popular, probably a cheerleader in high school, successful in career and in love, and [...]

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The perils and promise of stepping out of bounds

July 4, 2019by Jen RiceLeave a Comment on The perils and promise of stepping out of bounds
The perils and promise of stepping out of bounds

I ran across a word the other day that intrigued me. As a writer, my favorite words are those you peel, like an onion, to uncover layers of meaning. With deceptively simple words like outstep, you need to look twice to see the inconsistencies in how it's defined. Outstep /aʊtˈstɛp/: verb: to step beyond  Synonyms: [...]

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