The Girl in the Red Rubber Boots

Tag: depression

  • The Benefits of Looking Religious

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    Emily Sara Smucker
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    I was entering the learning center when the old man stopped me. “Do I know you from the store?” he asked. I knew he meant Grocery Depot, the Mennonite-owned store in town that mostly employs other Mennonites. “I don’t work there anymore, but I used to,” I said. “I have friends that work there.” “But…

  • It will rain

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    Emily Sara Smucker
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    12:30 am. I’ve had verying levels of insomnia recently, though tomorrow I will finally be able to sleep in. I reached over, picked up my bottle of prosaic, and removed the second to last pill. Second to last. And after the bottle is empty it will not get refilled. At least, we will try this.…

  • March Moodiness

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    Emily Sara Smucker
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    Oh, the pressure of realizing that you are publishing you’re 500’th blog post. What can I say that is witty enough, and monumental enough, and enough enough? I haven’t been posting, and I’ve blamed it on the fact that my next post was going to be THE 500’th post. Of my life. In reality, I…