September 28, 2011
Hi again, ladies, and thank you all for letting me host this meeting of the Enfield Garden Club! Yes, Melinda, your hat looks lovely, it matches the floral print of your dress. Yes, I like it. Really. It’s fine. Before we head out into the yard, would anyone like a cup of tea? Oh, it’s […]
Filed under: Just the Facts, Please! by Susan Jane Bigelow
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August 31, 2011
My life was the green-on-black text of our Apple IIgs. I spun worlds, tapping away on the keyboard, filling page after Appleworks page with brilliance. After I finally finished it, I did a few cursory edits and hit print. The ancient ImageWriter on the desk blinked its lights at me in a “you have to […]
Filed under: Instant Gratification by Susan Jane Bigelow
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August 16, 2011
My life was the green-on-black text of our Apple IIgs. I spun worlds, tapping away on the keyboard, filling page after Appleworks page with brilliance. After I finally finished it, I did a few cursory edits and hit print. The ancient ImageWriter on the desk blinked its lights at me in a “you have to […]
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July 16, 2011
Hooray! I’m now on Google+, along with all the hip, cool kids and other assorted Facebook refugees, and I’ve been there almost since the very beginning. It’s exciting and daunting, this launch of a new and potentially very successful social network, and I’m glad I’m here to see it evolve. It feels a little bit […]
Filed under: OPEN MIC by Susan Jane Bigelow
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June 16, 2011
I’m an autumn girl, I bloom when the leaves turn and the crispness of death is in the air. And yet somehow the summer sun beams down on me every day.
Filed under: Summer of Love by Susan Jane Bigelow
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May 16, 2011
Politics ain’t the only arena where we can learn from another’s perspectives.
Filed under: 2011 Best Of by Susan Jane Bigelow
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April 16, 2011
Chicken McNuggets are a constant in my life. What? They are. They hit the market in the early 1980s, only a few years after I was born. As far as I’m concerned, they’ve always been there. I actively dislike 99% of the McDonald’s menu; the McNuggets and the fries being the only exceptions. That, you […]
Filed under: "Tastes Like Chicken" by Susan Jane Bigelow
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March 16, 2011
Americans tend to fetishize certain aspects of our history while being gleefully oblivious to almost all of the rest of it. Is that because our society is built on mobility and forgetting?
Filed under: Saints & Sinners by Susan Jane Bigelow
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February 16, 2011
You’d think, after living and breathing gender issues and gender transition for the past eighteen months or so, that I’d have something useful to say about it. I feel like I can’t, though. It’s not that I haven’t thought about it, or that I have absolutely nothing to say, it’s that there’s too much. It’s […]
Filed under: Gender {n} – jen-der by Susan Jane Bigelow
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January 2, 2011
His eyes are wide, but there is no way he can know. He’s beautiful, in his way, and I mourn for things lost, chances not taken. I want to say more, but he’s let his attention wander. There’s a breathtakingly gorgeous young woman over by the bar, probably only a few years older than he is. For a brief moment, my eyes lock with hers. She grins brilliantly, so far out of reach that neither he nor I will ever be anywhere near her.
Filed under: Monthly Featured, White Party: Black Tie by Susan Jane Bigelow
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