Chicken Scratch by Elizabeth Beggins

If I Put “Fuck” in the Title, Will You Read This?

Some words need no introduction. This one needs an essay.

May 13 • Elizabeth Beggins

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He didn't make small decisions

From the Yorkshire Dales to the Carolina mountains, and one last journey beyond

May 3 • Elizabeth Beggins

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April 2026

More than half empty

Closed doors, open secrets, and sorry excuses

Apr 29 • Elizabeth Beggins

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In other words

On loving a place we keep forgetting isn't ours.

Apr 22 • Elizabeth Beggins

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Thank you, Nancy, for the cornbread

In which we consider things that go missing and where to find them

Apr 15 • Elizabeth Beggins

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Eee-vaah

Whirligigs, Wall-E, and the persistence of everything

Apr 8 • Elizabeth Beggins

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The desert holds what it holds

A two-lane passage through the Navajo Nation

Apr 1 • Elizabeth Beggins

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March 2026

What are we willing to admit?

A story that starts with a whistleblower named Dawn.

Mar 25 • Elizabeth Beggins

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I had very strong feelings about my mother's lemon pepper

On what we keep and what we inherit

Mar 18 • Elizabeth Beggins

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Set it and forget it

A formal petition to Congress on the occasion of Daylight Saving Time. Or: Bellyaching with a side of peer-reviewed research.

Mar 11 • Elizabeth Beggins

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What's in your hands?

On capacity and what to do with it.

Mar 4 • Elizabeth Beggins

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February 2026

Please don't

Collaboration, community, communion: Who gets to draw the lines?

Feb 25 • Elizabeth Beggins

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