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The Vagnino Monologues: December 2014
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It is better to write something now than everything never.". Saturday, December 20, 2014. I'm an adult and I'm not sorry about it. And you know what? I am And I'm fucking proud of that fact. My question is, why is it a point of pride to not grow up? I totally feel like Carrie Bradshaw, posing this rhetorical question). Not growing up = getting to date this douche. Now I'm actually an age where I am, legally at least, supposed to be a grown-up. And the kicker is, I actually am! The days when I didn't have...
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The Vagnino Monologues: December 2013
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It is better to write something now than everything never.". Thursday, December 5, 2013. Everything's.Gonna Be Alright? This image, by Christopher Clark. I felt stuck. I felt like I was going through the motions. While I loved my friends in Boston and was successfully supporting myself, something was not clicking. So I moved to Chicago. And as I wrote about nearly a year ago, I got very very depressed. I'm talking Dominos, which, when you live in Chicago, is a travesty to consume). Oh, and another really...
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The Vagnino Monologues: August 2014
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It is better to write something now than everything never.". Wednesday, August 27, 2014. Reporting from America's Dairyland. Now it's finished (and updated to reflect that I have now been here - gasp! This is the state flag of Wisconsin. Seeing as I have now been a resident of Wisconsin for over a year, I thought I should take a look at the flag. According to Wikipedia, it is not highly regarded in terms of design when compared with other state flags (oh snap! 2The unofficial state condiment is Ranch.
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The Vagnino Monologues: January 2015
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It is better to write something now than everything never.". Wednesday, January 28, 2015. So You Think You Don't Like Poetry. Per usual, I'm busy and blogging has fallen by the wayside. I thought I would take a moment, though, to post a poem that I just discovered, thanks to a student! By Naomi Shihab Nye. The river is famous to the fish. The loud voice is famous to silence,. Which knew it would inherit the earth. Before anybody said so. The cat sleeping on the fence is famous to the birds. After a dozen...
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The Vagnino Monologues: February 2015
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It is better to write something now than everything never.". Sunday, February 8, 2015. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About My Breast Reduction But Were Afraid To Ask. The above picture is from the goodbye party I threw in honor of my breasts, two days before my surgery. But let me first back up and explain how I got to the point of scheduling said procedure. I never wanted to be flat-chested, but I longed for breasts more in proportion to the rest of me, which is relatively petite. I'm curvy, ...
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The Vagnino Monologues: November 2013
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It is better to write something now than everything never.". Monday, November 4, 2013. So You Think You Don't Like Poetry. So I read this poem today and I loved its negativity, its concession of futility. It's a downer of a poem, for sure.and yet, because it's good, it made me feel good. Counter to the message of the poem, the poem's very existence made me happy. I love reading good poems! I love that people are still writing good poems! The world is a little less terrible with this poem in it. After a d...
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The Vagnino Monologues: March 2013
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It is better to write something now than everything never.". Tuesday, March 12, 2013. So You Think You Don't Like Poetry. So I'll share two of her poems with you here- the one I discovered back in grad school, "Yes," and one I read for the first time last week, "Coney Island," which is awesome because I LOVE Coney Island (I've written a poem about it as well, though it's not as good as this one). It’s like a tap-dance. Or a new pink dress,. Some say Good morning. Say say God bless–. To rush into Yes.
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The Vagnino Monologues: April 2014
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It is better to write something now than everything never.". Tuesday, April 22, 2014. So You Think You Don't Like Poetry: Happy Birthday, Nabokov edition. Today is Vladimir Nabokov's birthday and it's also National Poetry Month, so I'm celebrating both by posting a poem of my own (! That was recently published in Measure. Nabokov and his wife Vera shared a love of lepidoptery (collecting butterflies) - and he drew butterflies alongside his inscriptions in first editions gifted to her. She knew they had t...
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The Vagnino Monologues: June 2013
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It is better to write something now than everything never.". Sunday, June 16, 2013. Two weeks ago, I celebrated the 10th anniversary of graduating from college by attending my reunion in good ol' still-crime-stricken New Haven. It was, in a word, surreal. I appreciated the more mellow vibe. And instead of apologizing/justifying my career choice, like I felt I had to do at the last reunion (one person literally said, "wow, that's so brave! When I said I was getting my MFA in poetry), I fully owned up to t...
