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Joy DeSomber

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Good Vibes Club

Loving the Filth and Forgiving the Clean

It’s about when we look and when we look away

Mar 21, 2024

Loving the Filth and Forgiving the Clean

Mar 21, 2024

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Other People Once Walked the Earth

How we can see a crystal ball in reverse and find out what happened

Mar 1, 2024

Young woman with Naval Station Norfolk ballcap on and a Navy blueshirt on, standing in a parking lot, with a large government building behind her; photo is from the chest up.

Mar 1, 2024

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Black Bear

Substantial Soundlessness Creates Echoes of Nothingness

When an addiction keeps a person hidden

Mar 29, 2024

Nighttime in a city; there is a wall, and a tall building behind it with a lot of windows with lights inside. Due to something that may have gone wrong with the film, two people stand at the top of the wall behind a fence but aren’t clear.

Mar 29, 2024

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About Me Stories

About Me — Joy DeSomber

I’m so quiet that oftentimes people forget they’ve met me previously

Sep 26, 2022

Middle aged female with short gray hair sitting in wingback chair wearing colorful T-shirt with laptop in lap, smiling at camera.

Sep 26, 2022

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Twenty Years Later, I’m Shattering My Silence

An accident that nearly ended my life has opened me up

Jun 3, 2022

Row of journals

Jun 3, 2022

Bionic Bodies in Our Future

Cyborgs, robots, who and what we may become

Apr 2

Fully robotic humanlike body posing on a hill

Apr 2

Beyond the Bugle: How Taps Touches Our Souls

Week Four Boot Camp, January 1993

Feb 15

Bagpiper in front of a brick wall

Feb 15

My Fiancé’s In-Flight Medical Emergencies: A Story of Love and Panic

Yelling works if you can’t find the call button

Feb 11

View of snowy mountains from an airplane window

Feb 11

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Black Bear

Raging Out of Control Fires Can be Quelled

When we work together, flames can be turned to ash

Feb 6

Night sky filled with stars

Feb 6

From Dread to Triumph: Surviving the Toughest Day at Boot Camp

There’s a flag somewhere that we wiped our tears on

Feb 1

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Joy DeSomber

Joy DeSomber

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Single mom of three. Veteran. Cop. Humor, gratitude, trauma, travel, and more, always reinventing myself.

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