The After Notes
Deanna Bender (Hicks)I am writing about how I got here and where I am going next.
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When my body stopped feeling like home
I remember the hallway before I remember the classroom. The lockers were taller than I expected. The noise sharper.
This wasn’t elementary school anymore, where teachers smiled and waited for you to find your seat.
Until then, my body had...
What a rescue dog is teaching me about connection
An eighty-pound white German Shepherd entered our home timid and shaking, unsure of the hardwood floors beneath him.
Picked up as a stray in Southern California — seven years old, they estimate. No one knows how long he had been on his own...
Surviving What You Don't See Coming
This essay is about the kind of resilience you don’t plan for, but learn by staying.
This is a story where my publications The After Notes, and Instinct Kitchen, collide ~ not just in the telling, but in the living parts.
I opened my res...
The Shape of Responsibility
Owning a business didn’t make me louder or more certain — it made me careful.
Over time, responsibility taught me a way of thinking shaped less by ideals and more by consequences. Some risks were noble but not survivable. Some ideas didn’...
When Asking Questions Quit Feeling Safe
I was probably six, and my parents had gone out and left my brother and me with a babysitter. I’d fallen asleep on our sturdy, 1950s-era couch. I woke when I heard them come home.
I lay there quietly, wishing my dad would pick me up in his...
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Writing it all down from a small airfield in the PNW. The After Notes is about stewardship of self. Instinct Kitchen is about stewardship of work. Collisions do occur.
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