Six hours, forty-six minutes.
The pharmacy counter at my neighborhood Walgreens opened at 9 am, a full hour later than the rest of the store. I should have known that. When I was sixteen, I worked behind a Walgreens pharmacy counter just like this one, deciphering physicians’ cryptic shorthand and counting pills and holding on the phone with insurance companies and ... (read more)
Jeanette Mrozinski
Jeanette Mrozinski started working at age eight assembling promotional keychains on her family’s living room floor in the American Midwest. Since then, she’s worked as a stripper and government bureaucrat, bakery girl and communications director, factory laborer, yoga instructor, journalist – and a few dozen other gigs besides. An MFA candidate in Nonfiction at Washington University in St. Louis, she writes about labor, class, and our intrinsic self-worth. Her in-progress memoir on sex work and spiritual formation recounts her search for salvation in hotel rooms, churches, and other wrong places.