Annie Sand

Writer, educator, Midwesterner. Essays in @GuernicaMag @The_Rumpus @witnessmag and others. Substack: Finding the Horizon. Instagram @annieonthepage

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Thanks to @Longreads and @kristastevens for choosing my piece “On Metaphors and Snow Boots” as on of the best personal essays of 2022! Honored to be in this fabulous company.

https://t.co/QHGiRMIGru

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My new essay in Ecotone Magazine is free to read online for the next two weeks :) https://t.co/OKp0Uhsu10

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I don’t like this space anymore but I like you guys! I’ll try to find you in 🟦

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Another little essay up today, in case you need some tenderness in your day. Link in bio.

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@iamaU2fan Yup, and it’s 65 degrees and no tourists and perfect

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In Barcelona

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Short essay about social conditioning and the freedom to use our built environments as we wish (link in bio)

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“All we have to protect us against these metaphysically arctic conditions is the frail heat-shield generated by human kindness.”

- Seamus Heaney

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Woke up with a can’t-move-my-head crick in the neck. Hello Monday

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It’s 9:30 AM. I’m wearing a white shirt, and somehow I’ve already gotten tea, breakfast, and snot on it.

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Is it the onion? Or literally everything else 😭

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Thinking about how to stay both tender and strong after the election. Link in bio.

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Not every day your girl turns the big 4-0. My girl, I love you every day and beyond.

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The world burns, yet the fire is not bright enough to read a map by.

- Emily Ogden

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@brecht_dp Siiiiiiigh 😞

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Low key proud of myself for making it this long before pouring a drink. 🥃😓

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If you need a break from the news cycle, I wrote a short essay about staying grounded through the madness, link in bio

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Want to read about jellyfish and human melancholy?
https://t.co/2PEZXUT5BY

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@iamaU2fan It def is

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“I’m just so behind this semester,” I say as if I haven’t been behind every semester before this.

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@amy_stuber_ Yes! My lilacs bloomed last week, so unsettling

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I noticed several cherry trees around town have blossoms on them. It’s late October. What is happening?