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Forty-One People Watched the Meeting Where the Fee Changed
The video of the March 4 city council meeting has forty-one views. I am responsible for nine of them.
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I Saw It at Eleven and It Is Not Good and It Is Mine
There is a film I have seen, conservatively, forty times. It came out when I was eleven and I saw it first in a second-run theater in a midwestern town that does not have one any more. It has a plo…
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Twenty-Two Vendors, Eighteen Weeks, and Four Percent of the Farm's Income
Our market runs Saturdays from May to September in the parking lot behind the Methodist church, twenty-two vendors in a good week. I have had a table there for nine years. It is the best morning of…
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I Have Started Writing Them While People Are Still Working
I wrote nine hundred words about a sound editor in March. Real words — what she actually did, which was a specific and difficult thing involving the way a room sounds when someone stops talking in …
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Nineteen Messages Arrived and Not One of Them Is a Visit
Between Friday evening and Monday morning nineteen messages arrived in my portal inbox. Four were results questions. Three were medication questions that were genuinely clinical. Two were requests …
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Thirty-One Days for a Drug She Was Already Taking
The fax machine in our office is nineteen years old and it is load-bearing. I mean that literally: if it fails, a category of work stops, because a meaningful share of American insurers still requi…
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The County Mows in July and That Is the Whole Story
County Road 12, west side, between the culvert and the section line: on 28 June I counted blooming stems in ten one-metre quadrats and got a mean of 41, dominated by common milkweed, bergamot and t…
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The Money Arrived Before Anyone Who Could Spend It
The rural municipality's capital budget in the second year of the new structure was, in round numbers, twelve crore. It returned a little over four. Not stolen — returned, to the federal treasury, …
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We Announced Profitability and Meant Something Much Smaller
The press release said the company had turned profitable. What the finance team meant, and what the deck behind it said clearly to anyone who read past the headline slide, was that the June cohort …
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The Tuition Teacher and the School Teacher Are the Same Man
At half past five in the afternoon the children who had been in his class at eleven in the morning arrive at his house, about fourteen of them, and sit on the floor of a room with a blackboard on t…
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