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Mar 14, 2024

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Personal Essay & Memoir

Reflections on the small but meaningful, the triumphs and crises.

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A-Culturated

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David Rhoades

Buying Hot Cheetos at the Town Square

Through street photography, I’m discovering the ways corner stores serve as the de-facto public spaces of the San Fernando Valley.

Mar 13, 2024

Saw this guy waiting under the lights for a good while around 11 PM — even after a bus had come through. || Photo by author

Mar 13, 2024

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The Narrative Arc

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David Rhoades

Test Your Friendship — Move a Mattress

Lifting furniture makes a handy metaphor for intimacy.

Mar 11, 2024

A U-Haul truck off the side of a highway facing the viewer.

Mar 11, 2024

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Daydreams

Growing up is hard.

Mar 19, 2015

Daydreams

Mar 19, 2015

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The Poor Man’s Polymath

On the virtue of non-productive hobbies

Sep 21, 2020

The Poor Man’s Polymath

Sep 21, 2020

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The Loneliest Hour

Meditating on all-nighters and pre-dawn isolation.

Sep 10, 2020

Pre-dawn light in the Southwestern desert.

Sep 10, 2020

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The Quiet Survivors — A Visual Essay

A cartoonist’s reckoning with his own childhood trauma.

Nov 8, 2019

The Quiet Survivors — A Visual Essay

Nov 8, 2019

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A Dispatch from the Future

My future self sent me a letter about what to expect over the next 10 years.

Dec 19, 2019

A Dispatch from the Future

Dec 19, 2019

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