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Care or Buy

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I connected with the collective stories in Share or Die. While the book centers about sharing in the physical sense, sharing in the emotional sense is the core of the underlying message. Read more »

Bright Pink Lipstick

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Somewhere along the line I realized this is not going away, and that struggling to pay the utilities is a monthly reality with no end in sight. Read more »

Controlled Burn

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I’m at a café right now that’s across the street from a vacant office building. The low-slung seventies-contemporary structure used to house our family dentist’s business. Read more »

Moving to Villa Villekulla

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Downsizing is a painful disruption for a family. Recession diarist Corbyn Hightower on remaining resilient through the process. Read more »

It's A Good Weird

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As Corbyn Hightower's family has re-scaled their lives to scaled down earnings, they've met more artists, eccentrics, and cheerful outcasts. It's a good weird. Read more »

Mashed Sandwiches and Empty Water Bottles

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How the "automatic pariah-status" of living car-free liberated Corbyn Hightower's family. Read more »

Craigslist and Other Intimacies

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This is what people love to call a first world issue. Read more »

I'm Too Lazy to Write This Piece

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"Now Mom, I'm going to have you sit on the floor in front of the hearth. Sisters, can you sit on either side of your mom? Put your hand on her shoulder, there . . . that's it. Read more »

Incandescent

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As a child, I was known for being a daydreamer, a ceiling-gazer. I wasn't looking at the ceilings though, it just appeared so. I was looking at the light fixtures. Read more »

To Exurbia and Back in One Short Year

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Back when I had a real job, we lived in a planned subdivision that was specifically designed to foster the feeling of community and car-free convenience. Read more »
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