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Primarily the home for updates on her inner life, Danielle is slowly turning this space into one of topical reflection and intellectual practice. As she begins her low-residency MFA, she sharpens on the need for discipline in her life, and this blog is the place she plans to find it. Now all she needs is a couple readers to hold her accountable. Topics will include GLBT concerns, more than a fair share of feminism, reflections on writing, and anything academic that she wouldn't be compelled to write about in a paper, maybe some things she would.

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So Much Braver than I give you · 1Y ago

Non-morbid death musings

I’ve always had a keen interest in the subjects of human mortality, death, and grief, but up until recently, I’ve avoided the topic in any sort of social context because I wasn’t sure my particular point of view was one that could be easily understood by others. Death, like religion and sex, are thi

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So Much Braver than I give you · 1Y ago

The Celebrity Idea

This is my fundamental problem with tabloids, blogs like these, rumor rags, ect. I don't think that the people in this business consider what they do profiting at the expense of another human being, simply because, in our national eye, these people are not classified as human beings

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So Much Braver than I give you · 1Y ago

The thing about having a sense of purpose…

I just have days where I can't give a shit about these intangible things I've tethered myself to (success, notoriety, making a difference, being fully understood) and when I don't give a shit, I don't have anything to fall back on.

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So Much Braver than I give you · 1Y ago

The job search: West Coast vs. Midwest

So far the only difference I've been able to confirm is the need for Spanish in the food service industry. How can it be there are no facts on this at all? Is the West Coast hiding some dirty little secret about their hiring practices?

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So Much Braver than I give you · 1Y ago

My New MFA program

I’ve meant to put up a sequel to my post on MFA programs for awhile now but it’s a challenge not to become over-emotional or just start gibbering like a fan girl in reference to my latest grad school experience. Now that it’s all in perspective I hope I can give a somewhat unbiased account. [...]

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So Much Braver than I give you · 2Y ago

My half-boiled thoughts on MFA programs in Creative Writing

I’ve recently read Madison Smartt Bell’s thoughts on the essential flaws in the design of the modern MFA program in Narrative Design: Working with Imagination, Craft, and Form, and it’s made me evaluate a lot of my negative emotions associated with my pursuit of post-graduate education. Bell has som

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So Much Braver than I give you · 2Y ago

Originally a response to a trend in the comments on a Ms. Magazine article

For those “feminists” that are complaining about the stereotyping of the “pro-life” side of this debate, I’m sorry mom and dad never told you, but you can’t have your cake and eat it too. If you support any government move that wants to restrict what all women across the board do with their own bodi

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So Much Braver than I give you · 2Y ago

Shaking things Up

I go back to my University of *choice* today, the name of which I’ll omit from the text of public forum because I don’t plan to often speak well of it, and I think burning bridges hurts the person who set the fire more than the somewhat financially secure and publicly approved institution whose repu

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So Much Braver than I give you · 2Y ago

Dramatic Return to Cyberspace

I have returned to the intellectual community of the internet. Things got really apathetic and jaded there for awhile, I guess that may have had to do with a lot of things, graduating is a huge buzz kill when your undergraduate institution was so fabulous you didn’t even really want to leave, and es

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So Much Braver than I give you · 2Y ago

The Best Version of Yourself

What I'm wondering about, really, is what sort of environment allows you to be the best version of yourself? It's easy to achieve that in separate isolated moments, but on a day-to-day basis, it's a struggle to be the best version of you.

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