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The Dog and Pony Show

Cari Wade Gervin

Essays. musings and occasional advice on life, sobriety, shopping and staying sane in an upside-down world after politics broke my brain.

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I'm Sick

I’ve been working on my next couple of essays, and they still aren’t ready yet. This is because I apparently have “post-viral fatigue syndrome,”1 which is like the baby cousin of chronic fatigue syndrome (because it hopefully will not becom...

22 days ago
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What Does Failure Look Like?

Imagine this pile, but covering half a room. You’ll get the gist. Photo by Camilo Rueda Lopez on Unsplash

1. A giant stack of papers from the past nine years.

Some of these papers were organized, once. None have been filed.

Calling it a...

2 months ago
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Sunk Cost Fallacy

Disclosure: I’ve been tinkering with this essay for a few years now. I’ve pitched it a few places, because I felt like if I was going to mine my trauma like this, I should get paid for it. Also, I wanted an editor. But no one’s taken my pit...

3 months ago
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RIP, @DHM

A terrible (probably drunk) picture I took of Dan McQuade at a rooftop bar in Nashville in 2015. (We were both still drinking then.) I didn’t intentionally background Nissan Stadium, but it’s apropos, I think. We had fun that day.

I met h...

4 months ago
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Manage Your Anxiety Like a Pro

Find the calm where you can. Photo by Kalen Emsley on Unsplash

I’ve seen a lot of posts over the past week expressing some version of “Why did I pick this year to do Dry January?!” And I get it — the state of the world is fucking abysmal,...

4 months ago
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