Dispatches from a Porch Swing

Dispatches from a Porch Swing

Precarious

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Jen Deaderick
Sep 20, 2025
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Metaphorically, I feel like for years I’ve been leaping precariously from safe spot to safe spot while dangling above the ground. I got good at it, in metaphor. Turns out doing it in reality, not so much.

A staff person had to save me from the platform where I was sitting, breathing. Settling my panic attack. It was the first leg of a ropes course, so I…

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