The Girl in the Red Rubber Boots

Tag: Oregon

  • The Strangest Day of my Life

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    Emily Sara Smucker
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    I’ve been looking forward to watching this eclipse for months. I love bizarre, dream-like experiences where the normal rules of life don’t seem to apply. Like when I was in Thailand, exploring a semi-abandoned mall, where I’d walk through movie theaters and ice rinks and no one was there. Or when the floods of 2012…

  • The Weather is my Real Boss

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    Emily Sara Smucker
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    In midsummer, the sun rises in the northeast, shining through my north bedroom window and straight into my eyes. In other words, if I don’t wake up at 5:45 AM, there is enough cloud cover that I might not have to go to work. I used to read old books and wonder why everyone was…

  • Sisters and also, like, Fashion

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    Emily Sara Smucker
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    Fashion bloggers always upload pictures of themselves wearing whatever they wore that day. Then they talk about it. You know, what inspired it, where they got the clothes, how much the clothes cost, etc . This is what I wore to work today. Aka, to help my dad teach school. Aka, to answer flags and…