Essays Fiction and Poetry by Andrea LeDew
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Essays Fiction and Poetry by Andrea LeDew
trying to make the scales balance
Living in my house means growing accustomed to things being out of place. Peanut butter smeared on the roll of paper towels. A random sock in the center of the floor. A bottle of ketchup, with its lid hinged open, abandoned on the counter. Dishes, strewn like offerings, before the altar of the desktop monitor. …
When you’ve had your smartphone for a while, you accumulate a lot of clutter. You know the kind I mean: old texts, emails from people you hardly remember, screenshots, reminders and notes to yourself, bookmarks, saved articles and e-books. Our phones have taken the place of photo albums, journals, messages scrawled on the back of …
Warm. Soft. Cozy. This is the time of year when we snuggle under them, wrap ourselves in them, tuck old and worn ones under our favorite shivering pets, cover our legs with them, ready for an invigorating sleigh ride. And rumor has it, some of us even knit them! I am not such …
