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Ann Cinzar

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Ann Cinzar’s work has appeared in The Washington Post, Brevity, Motherwell and elsewhere. Find her at anncinzar.com, or schlepping her kids between swim practice and Kumon.

January 8, 2021

Dry January Is Shocked By Your Naïveté

by Ann Cinzar
January 30, 2018

God Almighty, Deliver Us From This Man-Cold

by Ann Cinzar
March 15, 2017

Remembrances of Past Outrages That Now Seem Quaint in Trump’s America

by Ann Cinzar
April 2, 2015

An Open Letter to the Guy Who Discovered the 10,000 Hour Rule

by Ann Cinzar

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Should I Bring Anything to the Dinner Tonight or Just My Crippling Anxiety?

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by Rachel Mans McKenny
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