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    how not to sleep
    Travis Grossi
    • Jun 21, 2018
    • 3 min

    how not to sleep

    I’m fascinated by people who can just lay their heads down and sleep. As if all that separates them from here and dreamland is a pillow,...
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    the power of pictures
    Travis Grossi
    • Jun 20, 2018
    • 2 min

    the power of pictures

    It took pictures and audio recordings. Words weren’t enough. I’ll admit I scrolled past the initial headlines a couple weeks ago as I...
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    meddling through healthcare
    Travis Grossi
    • Jun 19, 2018
    • 7 min

    meddling through healthcare

    I’m not great at going to the doctor. It usually takes me a couple days to realize I’m sick, and by then I figure I can wait for my white...
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    pa
    Travis Grossi
    • Jun 17, 2018
    • 3 min

    pa

    I call my dad Pa. Not Pop or Pops or even Pappa. Pa. This is something I’ve always done, because this is the name he was assigned when I...
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    listening to the trees
    Travis Grossi
    • Jun 16, 2018
    • 3 min

    listening to the trees

    Trees can talk to each other. I know this because I read an article about it a couple years ago and then started to watch a TED talk...
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    baby reasons
    Travis Grossi
    • Jun 15, 2018
    • 3 min

    baby reasons

    I share a paper thin bedroom wall with a neighbor’s baby I’ve never seen. It’s been two years now, and every time I hear it crying I...
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    jen
    Travis Grossi
    • Jun 14, 2018
    • 3 min

    jen

    She was tall and blonde and a Reagan Republican, and would have loved a descriptive paragraph about her beginning with all those...
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    faking it
    Travis Grossi
    • Jun 13, 2018
    • 3 min

    faking it

    Ten short years ago, “how many followers do you have?” was a question I could have only imagined being asked in the afterlife, in a...
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    digging holes
    Travis Grossi
    • Jun 12, 2018
    • 3 min

    digging holes

    My favorite professor in college once told us our twenties were for asking as many questions as we could, and then following those...
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    beardiful
    Travis Grossi
    • Jun 11, 2018
    • 3 min

    beardiful

    I never intended to grow a beard. Bald since nineteen, I thought a beard would only draw attention to the lack of hair on the top of my...
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    getting pilloried
    Travis Grossi
    • Jun 11, 2018
    • 3 min

    getting pilloried

    It’s 10 in the morning and I’m standing in a medieval pillory, the old-school torture device that makes you look like you’re waiting for...
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    finding (some) answers
    Travis Grossi
    • Jun 10, 2018
    • 3 min

    finding (some) answers

    Towards the end of high school, most weekend nights would begin or end at a smokey coffeeshop. This was before wifi, before Starbucks...
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    Halfway there
    Travis Grossi
    • Jun 8, 2018
    • 2 min

    Halfway there

    Day fifteen. We’re halfway there. I’ll admit when I started this challenge, I didn’t think it’d be that hard. Write and post five hundred...
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    getting over the rainbow
    Travis Grossi
    • Jun 7, 2018
    • 3 min

    getting over the rainbow

    When I was a freshman in college, I wanted to write a book compiling people’s coming out stories. It seemed an auspicious time to be gay;...
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    The thief of notre dame
    Travis Grossi
    • Jun 6, 2018
    • 3 min

    The thief of notre dame

    I went to a catholic elementary school from kindergarten through the third grade called Notre Dame. The boys were required to wear light...
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    hitting walls
    Travis Grossi
    • Jun 6, 2018
    • 3 min

    hitting walls

    When I was signed up for my first marathon, I was not a runner. I had run places, but mostly because I was being chased or was late for...
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    allergic to karma
    Travis Grossi
    • Jun 4, 2018
    • 3 min

    allergic to karma

    For years, whenever I’d hear about someone’s allergies, part of me was sympathetic but another, larger part of me kind of thought they...
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    wear sunscreen 2.0
    Travis Grossi
    • Jun 4, 2018
    • 2 min

    wear sunscreen 2.0

    Ladies and gentleman of the class of 2018: wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. But...
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    brother of the year
    Travis Grossi
    • Jun 3, 2018
    • 2 min

    brother of the year

    I’m not the best at planning ahead. One might argue that’s because I live in the moment, but one might also argue that is a ridiculous...
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    shooting for the stars
    Travis Grossi
    • Jun 2, 2018
    • 3 min

    shooting for the stars

    I’m not sure why people stand in line at Starbucks anymore, shuffling up to the counter placing their orders one at a time like peasants....
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