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Melt With Me
Essays on kindness, pop culture, and occasionally poop. Cancer survivor x2. Father of awesome daughters. Four-time Best American Essayist.
Jul 9, 2022
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Paul Crenshaw
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What We Have In Common
Call it the heartache of being human, or the sorrow of our certain demise.
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Paul Crenshaw
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Diagnosis
**NOTE: Kelly Thompson TNWWY was kind enough to reprint my essay “Diagnosis” on The W(Hole).
Jan 13
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Paul Crenshaw
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Kelly Thompson TNWWY
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The Poet
It rained hard this morning at work.
Jan 9
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Paul Crenshaw
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Just Once I'd Like to Wake Up
Without worry the world will be at war in the morning.
Jan 6
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Paul Crenshaw
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A Few Rules For The New Year
Call them resolutions, maybe.
Jan 2
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Paul Crenshaw
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The Year We Kept Going
I don’t like to leave a preamble too often, so let me just say it’s been a tough year.
Dec 30, 2025
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Paul Crenshaw
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A Short Sad Christmas Story
A few days before Christmas one year a neighbor knocked on my grandfather’s door and said her husband hadn’t come out from under the house.
Dec 23, 2025
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Paul Crenshaw
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This Will Be Worth Something Someday
When my great uncle Harold Dean gave me cookies for Christmas he said it was the container I wanted to keep.
Dec 19, 2025
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Paul Crenshaw
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[COPY] Stupid Shit People Used to Believe
I posted this a year ago today.
Dec 14, 2025
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Paul Crenshaw
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I Cry Every Thanksgiving Watching Planes, Trains and Automobiles
It’s like the best essays, the ones that are funny all the way until the end, until they aren’t funny any more and suddenly you’re spiraling into…
Dec 9, 2025
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Paul Crenshaw
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Let Your Weird Light Shine
A few months ago Jenn and I went to breakfast in a neighboring town and ended up at a small community swap meet on a Saturday morning.
Dec 5, 2025
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Essays on kindness, pop culture, and occasionally poop. Cancer survivor x2. Father of awesome daughters. Four-time Best American Essayist.
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