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The Thought Residencies

Sep 30, 2020

This is DM, and we’re at number twelve.

I used to work at a nursing home, at the reception desk.  As a result, I was often the first point of contact for families visiting residents.  This one guy would visit his mother about three times a week.  He was nice enough, but never chatty.  One night he comes in, heads my...


Sep 30, 2020

My name is Donna-Michelle St. Bernard and this is my eleventh thought.  

I recently got into a thing with a collaborator about whether Han shot first.  Not really about if he did or not, but about whether it matters if he did or not, and whether that is a thing worth saying.  It matters, I assure you.  If you’re a...


Sep 30, 2020

My name is Donna-Michelle St. Bernard and this is my tenth thought.  

I have these red boots.  I love them.  As soon as I saw them I knew my life would change if I could only have them.  Then I got those boots.  I love them.  And I almost never wear them.  They are those things that are so special, too special, no...


Sep 30, 2020

#14 NEVER NOT TRYING

This is Donna-Michelle St. Bernard with my fourteenth and final thought.

I am trying my best.  I have grown so much and changed not at all.  There is a small part of me that is untouched by injustice and cynicism.  A part of me still open to criticism.  There is still a portion not smudged with...


Sep 29, 2020

#13 JUST VISITING

This is Donna-Michelle St. Bernard.  This is thought number thirteen.

I never want to be a tourist

A person who observes the external from a distance that they are at pains to retain because the view down the bridge of the nose is quite pleasing.  Everything is quaint. Your time in another person’s...