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Life Is Good
Nostalgia

Life Is Good

It's short day at school—Friday. The bell just rang and you are heading home at 1:45 PM. It's springtime and you're carrying the Bright Neon Green jacket your

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It Just Gets Stranger 26 Feb 2021 • 2 min read
Teeth Cleaning
Duncan

Teeth Cleaning

We were told some time ago that you really should get your dog's teeth cleaned. This was a part of a lecture that included advice that I'm 100% positive no

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It Just Gets Stranger 21 Feb 2021 • 4 min read
The Holy First Church of Saint Peloton
Skylar

The Holy First Church of Saint Peloton

I learned about Peloton a couple years ago, probably from Meg. She told me at that time that the most supportive friend in her life was an exceptionally gay Peloton

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It Just Gets Stranger 17 Feb 2021 • 3 min read
A Whole New World
Strangerville

A Whole New World

Come check out our new internet space!

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It Just Gets Stranger 14 Feb 2021 • 2 min read
A True Democracy
Jude

A True Democracy

One of the plus sides to living in These Unprecedented Times is many of my friends realized all at once that they could actually just go ahead and get really

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It Just Gets Stranger 10 Feb 2021 • 3 min read
Just In Case Cookies
Ridiculous

Just In Case Cookies

A few weeks ago @gimmeplants on Twitter posted a picture of an absolute abomination called "Just In Case Cookies." We talked about it on Strangerville last week. If you haven't

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It Just Gets Stranger 8 Feb 2021 • 4 min read
Things Are Looking Up
Medical School

Things Are Looking Up

Skylar no longer has time for basic news. If I'm being honest, I'm jealous of the result, but not of the means and methods to get to that result. Medical

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It Just Gets Stranger 3 Feb 2021 • 2 min read
Help me I'm poor.
Meg

Help me I'm poor.

A couple of quick things: First, your comments on the Shannon recap are giving me life. Also, SOMEONE IN THE COMMENTS LITERALLY FOUND HER GRANDMOTHER IN THE FILM. Stranger is

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It Just Gets Stranger 2 Feb 2021 • 4 min read
Shannon: A Recap Of A 1961 BYU Film About A Very Naughty Girl
Essays

Shannon: A Recap Of A 1961 BYU Film About A Very Naughty Girl

When I saw there was a BYU film from 1961 called “Shannon” I pulled the trigger and that’s how we ended up here. I have not seen this.  I

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    Eli McCann
Eli McCann 27 Jan 2021 • 14 min read
If We Ever Do Meet Again It Will Be Zion To Me
Skylar

If We Ever Do Meet Again It Will Be Zion To Me

We decided to take the weekend off and drive down to Zion National Park. This was a risky thing to do, we admit, considering our last few attempts to visit

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It Just Gets Stranger 25 Jan 2021 • 5 min read
An Impossible Way To Live
Medical School

An Impossible Way To Live

My husband, who art in heaven, hallowed be his name, decided to become an absolute terrorist two nights ago. Look. He's stressed and exhausted and exhausted and stressed and I

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It Just Gets Stranger 20 Jan 2021 • 3 min read
Dishes
Ridiculous

Dishes

"Did you have company in here today?" Skylar was asking it sarcastically, and I knew that was the case, so I guess that's why I responded "just my handful of

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It Just Gets Stranger 18 Jan 2021 • 3 min read
Companionship Inventory
Ridiculous

Companionship Inventory

When Skylar and I got married my mother—the woman who birthed me into this world—the being from whom my body emerged through a process she has since called

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It Just Gets Stranger 13 Jan 2021 • 4 min read
Happy Birthday, SkyMan
Skylar

Happy Birthday, SkyMan

Today is Skylar's birthday. I spend a lot of time on the internet gushing about him or sharing with you the absurd things he does, like drink Pepto Bismol as

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It Just Gets Stranger 10 Jan 2021 • 4 min read
Treehouse in the Mountain
Skylar

Treehouse in the Mountain

Skylar is turning 31 thousand, or so you'd think the way he complained about his aching "dainty ankles" today when we went snowshoeing for a few hours in some mountains

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It Just Gets Stranger 7 Jan 2021 • 5 min read
The Year Of
Life

The Year Of

I explain this every year but some of you are forgetful and some of you are new and I love the sound of my own voice, so I'm going to

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It Just Gets Stranger 3 Jan 2021 • 4 min read
2020
Social Distancing

2020

It was June. I went for a run around my city. This was a Saturday and it had been a very hard week in the exact middle of a very

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It Just Gets Stranger 31 Dec 2020 • 4 min read
The Most Viewed Posts of 2020
Review

The Most Viewed Posts of 2020

It's time for one of my favorite annual walks down memory lane. Below I've corralled a ranked 10 posts from this very ridiculous website. These are the pieces you most

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It Just Gets Stranger 29 Dec 2020 • 3 min read
We Are Very Angry With Matt
Ollie

We Are Very Angry With Matt

Matt has decided to move away from us, which is absolutely a hate crime and an act of terror. He sprung the news on us a few months ago. "I'm

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It Just Gets Stranger 23 Dec 2020 • 3 min read
Strangerhood of the Traveling Snuggie, Part 3
Ridiculous

Strangerhood of the Traveling Snuggie, Part 3

First off, I wrote a piece about what it feels like to close the chapter on 2020. It was incredibly cathartic to write this, in a way I hadn't really

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It Just Gets Stranger 19 Dec 2020 • 4 min read
A New Kind Of Peace
Essays

A New Kind Of Peace

I was just about to leave work for the day when my husband called me. “Class has been canceled. They’re sending everyone home,” he said. Skylar was deep into

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    Eli McCann
Eli McCann 17 Dec 2020 • 9 min read
2020 Vision
Essays

2020 Vision

Recently I saw a billboard that said, “It’s time to see with 2020 vision.” I laughed a laugh that has become all too familiar this year, a laugh I

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    Rebbie Brassfield
Rebbie Brassfield 16 Dec 2020 • 5 min read
Hedgy
Ridiculous

Hedgy

A couple years ago my friend Anna got Duncan a little stuffed animal hedgehog. She called it "Hedgy" and this quickly became Duncan's very favorite toy. My little man was

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It Just Gets Stranger 14 Dec 2020 • 3 min read
I am married to a deeply weird person.
Ridiculous

I am married to a deeply weird person.

Just a few days ago Skylar and I decorated gingerbread cookies. With sweat at my brow, I mixed and rolled the dough and then I carefully baked them with love.

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It Just Gets Stranger 10 Dec 2020 • 2 min read
Godmothers of Country Music
Essays

Godmothers of Country Music

My junior year of high school I took AP Language and Composition, a sort of writing and rhetoric course. Unlike any other of my classes, it was transformative in that

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    L. R. Encinas
L. R. Encinas 9 Dec 2020 • 6 min read
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