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Since moving to Michigan, I sometimes go up to 4 days without talking to another person. I am a natural extrovert who doesn't even mind going to parties or shows alone and making friends once I'm there, but there are a couple other times in my life I've ended up in a lonely situation. My favorite activities are reading, crafting, watching movies, wasting time online, and I'm my own best friend, so while it hurts to be so lonely sometimes, I can handle it better than some (or would others not let their situation get so unpeopled?). It is reminding me of being an only child, especially since I started practicing reading tarot cards again (for the day I have IRL friends again I guess). I used to be obsessed with being a witch, second through sixth grade. It was an interest that made me feel like I was living in a magical world, and revisiting it has been nice.  I also loved playing with dolls. I was lonely during my weekdays with Dad, but on weekends with Mom, ...
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Desolation Row - a short story by Robin Crane

  The window on the passenger side of my old car had been thoroughly shattered, but nothing valuable was missing inside, because there was nothing of value in there.  The one strange thing was that whoever it was that did this had taken my favorite compilation CD, one I’d made recently and had left on the passenger seat.  I wasn’t sure if the cops were only called when a car had been stolen or something valuable like a cd player boosted from it but my room mate said an attempted break in was worth their time so I spoke with a team of cops that came by the house and took some photos of the old car.  Later I ripped up a thick green yard waste trash bag and duct taped it to the hole left by the broken window glass.  This made me look poor, but I didn’t mind; I was young and I’d been to college and it felt good to look poor.   One day a few months later I was driving down Sunset and there was a fragile, slow-moving blue Hyundai driving in the next lane, which I...

Truth and Some of My Favorite Things

I am so sad it's unclear how I will ever get out of it. It seems like I must, but I don't see how.

A Brief Photo-Journal of the Past Year Spent in Central Michigan by Robin Crane

 July 2025 - August 2026 Picnic Benches at Henry Fine Park in East Lansing Late Summertime in the Pinecrest Neighborhood in East Lansing (above and below) Lansing a pink-tinged living room in Leslie Blanchette Drive Autumn Tree Christmas Lights Across the street from my Aunt's House Lansing Travelodge off W. Saginaw Highway, Where I Lived the Week before Christmas The Denny's next to the Travelodge U-haul Parking Lot in Williamston right before a Summer Thunderstorm Lansing Mall Cinema/Lansing Mall West (1984-2014) Former Sears Auto Center Service Station (built 1954) Transformed into Drive-Thru Lab Services Where I Got Blood Drawn   Late Summer in Williamston