Sarah Marty-Schlipf

Storyteller. Mischief-maker. Find my work on The Rumpus, Mud Season Review, "Beautiful Things," and elsewhere.

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I've got a tiny piece of nonfiction up at @riverteeth's "Beautiful Things" blog today: https://t.co/9iT0K8nSox

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@mkwfreeman memoir is right in my wheelhouse. Always looking for authors I haven't read--thank you!

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Building my summer reading list--100% NF. Tell me the best novel you've laid your imagination on recently. Or some poetry, please & thanks.

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I have manure under my fingernails. What I do for love and #spring.

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Bought tons of baby plants today, then accidentally planted a big new flowerbed. Like accidentally eating a quart of ice cream, but better.

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@elis_coffee is winning my work day right now with vintage Michael Buble. Eli's definitely "makes everything [read: grading] better."

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Stepping out of the crazy and into spring break with a sigh of relief.

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How has it taken me this long to discover Sia? Gonna keep one earbud in for the rest of the week & listen to "Alive" on repeat. What a song.

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Outside: howling winds, gray skies. In my basement: the first seeds started. Must be March!Spring is coming, folks.

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Sometimes practicing self-care involves putting a hot pink streak in your hair.

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Today's post-teaching decompression: haul out the seed-starting equipment and sort seeds.

Because you know what's coming, people?

SPRING.

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Swam a mile today for the first time in months. Ta-da. Now for my next trick: eating the entire contents of the pantry. #swimming

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Friday eve dilemma: to run? Or to cuddle my creatures and watch tv until my brain--by now pulp--turns to mush? "To grade" isn't an option.

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My students have been asking hard questions about writing "raw" CNF, what to put in, what to withhold. This came up: https://t.co/vWi3uWe4SK

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CNF students started @CherylStrayed's Tiny Beautiful Things, so I'm rereading, which meant weeping/laughing over coffee in public this a.m.

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A bit over the top, but hilarious, kind, well worth a read: https://t.co/mx48HBYPbw

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On the 1st day of class, no matter how much coffee/food/H2O I've had: ITALKSOFAST. If you know the antidote to adrenaline, kindly tell me.

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Excellent food for thought: “The annihilating ocean of whiteness” by J. D. Schraffenberger https://t.co/r4N7Y5eFRT via @AssayJournal

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@iSmashFizzle @greatdiscontent It was a fun interview! Really appreciated your perspective.

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On the 2nd day of Christmas cookie-baking, my true loves...finally settled down.