BUT THAT'S NOT FAIR

a youngest child's perspective on the world, having grown up in an industrial town, waitressed for a decade, and then gone to law school

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Robyn Ashley Schleihauf

Oct 30, 2022
3 min

Chapter 2: the envelope

Cynthia opened the door, blinking as the sun hit her eyes. There was no one there. Probably kids, she thought, but then remembered they...

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Robyn Ashley Schleihauf

Jun 9, 2022
4 min

Chapter One: Hoover

Cynthia lit a cigarette and looked down at her manicured hand resting on the brown handle of the hoover. Chuck had bought that vacuum for...

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Robyn Ashley Schleihauf

Jul 19, 2021
2 min

(somewhat) solicited advice

Dear Molly, This is a letter your teacher made you ask people in your life to write, but I feel really lucky to be able to do it. There...

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Robyn Ashley Schleihauf

Apr 1, 2021
3 min

Hope is like an appendix

On a weekday afternoon late last spring, sitting at my desk with a fan pointed at my face moving the tepid air of my apartment about, I...

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How to quit drinking: thank you, but our princess is in another castle

Robyn Ashley Schleihauf

Sep 6, 2020
7 min

How to quit drinking: thank you, but our princess is in another castle

Eventually, you do end up at the final castle, either shrunk down and small or tall and whipping fireballs...This is how I killed Bowser.

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Robyn Ashley Schleihauf

Aug 23, 2020
5 min

Stopping

I counted and recounted the myriad of reasons I definitely did not, absolutely could not possibly, have a problem with alcohol.

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Robyn Ashley Schleihauf

Jul 12, 2020
8 min

The sweet sultry salve to save you

She started by drawing a line between people with addictions and people without addictions. She then explained that addicts lack...

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Robyn Ashley Schleihauf

Jun 28, 2020
6 min

Rule breakers

We’ve all of us broken our bubbles, no longer adhering to the Provincial ordinance to only see our chosen people from one other household.

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Robyn Ashley Schleihauf

Jun 7, 2020
8 min

What's the point?

A bureaucrat at the university slams a 1000 page tome on her desk and looks at you pointedly.

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Robyn Ashley Schleihauf

May 24, 2020
5 min

Play until the streetlights come on

My dad brought the wagon along to pick me up, which I am obviously too old to enjoy but happily jump into as soon as we round the corner.

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Robyn Ashley Schleihauf

May 10, 2020
6 min

Dispatches from solitude

“if anyone needs me, I’ll just be over here realizing I need far more validation than I thought I did.”

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Chemical Valley, Turkey, and Bleach: the importance of good hygiene in a pandemic

Robyn Ashley Schleihauf

Apr 10, 2020
4 min

Chemical Valley, Turkey, and Bleach: the importance of good hygiene in a pandemic

“There was a guy in here with a bleach rag,” she says, shaking her head, putting a can of tomatoes into one of my bags.

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PUBLISHED WORK

Robyn's work has been published on CBC.ca and in The Coast.

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ABOUT

But that's not fair is a collection of personal essays and creative nonfiction by Robyn Ashley Schleihauf

Robyn is a writer, a lawyer and a consultant in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. She enjoys making scones, swimming in the ocean, listening to people speak earnestly and genuinely about just about anything and reading. She lives with a tailless cat named Bobby and a sweet and spicy corgi named Chips.

Find out more about her law practice:

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rschleihauf@gmail.com

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