Chicken Scratch by Elizabeth Beggins

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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From gloss to grandeur: Status, stars, and ordinary happiness

Feb 18 • Elizabeth Beggins

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Prime suspect

How a system glitch rewired my moral outrage.

Feb 11 • Elizabeth Beggins

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I almost didn't, until I did

Good things happen when I stop talking myself out of them

Feb 4 • Elizabeth Beggins

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January 2026

Offerings

On love, loss, and the cost of devotion

Jan 28 • Elizabeth Beggins

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Look at me, not crashing

Doing my best with what's left. And a poem.

Jan 21 • Elizabeth Beggins

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Sharp shards

Noticing harm and what it teaches me about honoring life

Jan 14 • Elizabeth Beggins

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