denisesrobbins
Welcome to noticements, where I write about moments worth noticing. Topics include life, literature, music, and more. If you'd like to read more of my work, pick up my novel, "The Unmapping."
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Enneagrams Could Have Stopped the Vietnam War (opens the original)
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I’m thirty-six years old, which is well before menopause, but was recently invited by a friend to a “hot flash” menopause-themed dance party. It started early and ended early and was presumably intended for old people, but there were no old people. I take that back. In the beginning, there were old people. And music from the 70s and lights that were on too bright so you could see people milling around sadly and we mostly sat at a table and drank and chatted. By around 8:15pm the old people had l
Musicals are the highest art and you should train yourself to love them if you don’t (opens the original)
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First: It’s been a bit since I’ve written here. I’ve been working on other essays I’m proud of. Check them out: “The Infertility of Time”: on Solvej Balle’s series ‘On the Calculation of Volume’ and infertility for The Metropolitan Review“Communication is Literally Impossible”": on the challenges of translation for The Republic of Letters </
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