Ancient Grains Archive
No Woman’s Body Found Today
Ancient Grains, The Great Outdoors
Jul 17, 2013
No woman's body was found today on the beach by police around 8:50 pm after no one reported finding an unconscious woman on the beach.
The body of no woman in her early 30s was pulled from a lake near Minneapolis early this morning.
No one was charged after a woman's body and multiple
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Cut from the Classics: Affable Johnson
Ancient Grains, Books
Jul 17, 2013
Cut From the Classics brings your favorite novels to life as never before. Each week we present a profile of a character who originally appeared in the first draft of a major work of fiction, but was subsequently cut from the final draft. This insight into each author’s process brings a fuller,
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Everything I Know About Contouring I Learned from Sex and the City
Ancient Grains, Beauty
Jul 17, 2013
I was finishing beauty school right around the same time Sex and the City was ending. I looooved Sex and the City back then. I used to watch it more or less every day. I was 21 years old, I had no friends, and their relationships seemed like a dream--just four women
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Signs In Women’s Restrooms: A Public Menace
Ancient Grains, Artwork, Cartoons
Jul 17, 2013
Affixed to almost every vertical surface in the modern public ladies' room are helpful written reminders like "Please do not flush diapers, sanitary napkins, or other feminine products." "Place paper towels only in the trash can." "For public safety, please wash your hands after using the restroom." "Dispose tampons here, not on
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Housekeeping
Ancient Grains, Meta
Jul 17, 2013
Previously: an introduction.
There is a doc -- a Google doc -- that you have never seen, covered in page after page of truly terrible possible blog names that Nicole and I created back in the heady, champagne-fueled days of late May. They're as bad as you can imagine, and then
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What Abortions Should Be Like
Ancient Grains, Dreams
Jul 16, 2013
As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a den, and I laid me down in that place to sleep; and as I slept, I dreamed a dream. I dreamed, and behold I saw a Woman, standing in a certain place, with her
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Dreaming With Jen Doll: Hairy Eyeballs and Dead Don Drapers
Ancient Grains, Dreams
Jul 16, 2013
Dear Dreamers,
Since last we convened, I have been a bit sleepless. I’ve woken up at 5 a.m. for a series of mornings, then tossed and turned restlessly for hours. When I finally am able to get back to sleep, my alarm clock rings, and my eyes can barely open to read Twitter
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As Close To Evil As We Can Stand
Ancient Grains, Writing
Jul 16, 2013
I grew up secreted away from the world. My parents didn’t let us watch television or listen to top 40 stations and they rarely discussed current events. My siblings and I were homeschooled, leaving our house only for church, dance lessons and supervised outings to the park. We were to be in
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