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One evening a few years ago Joe and I were walking the dog by the creek near our house when a thought out of nowhere appeared in my head...
Rachael Maddux

February 2023

I knew the baby was going to arrive on the cusp...
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January 2023

The baby in my house goes to sleep or maybe she doesn’t...
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December 2022

This time last year was the saline ultrasound and the endometrial biopsy and the hysterosalpingogram, then the antibiotics, then the IVF orientation…
Rachael Maddux

November 2022

Hello from five weeks into having pushed a small human out of a too-small hole in my body. The present scene is quieter than that one: I am here on my…
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October 2022

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September 2022

My brain feels soft and smooth and I am getting sporadically yoinked in the lungs by the small humanoid that lives inside my body, a dynamic that may…
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August 2022

The human body at thirty-two weeks pregnant is a thing of wonder. As in: I wonder what happens next. I wonder how long this will go on. I wonder if it…
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July 2022

The first time we were going to Maine — May 2020 — it was three nights in a “stunning 1 bdrm apt” in Portland, two nights in a “custom designed tree…
Rachael Maddux

June 2022

One way to say it is “anger and weird relief.” Another way is [makes never-ending fart noise while flames shoot out eyes]. It has been coming and now…
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May 2022

What happened that April out in Colorado — two boys with guns and trench coats, thirteen dead, twenty-one wounded — quickly became known as Columbine…
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April 2022

If you ever find yourself with a few hours to kill in Atlanta, here’s what I’d tell you. First, honestly, if I was in a certain kind of mood (pedantic…
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