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When People Are Interested in Your Vacation Photos
Over a lush lawn of bright green spring grass, sits a half—filled crumbled paper lawn bag, propped up on the legs of the landscaper, likely the owner of the house. One hand has left the rake stand...
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Getting What We Need: Beds and Honey
The last Christmas present I received from her is folded neatly in a lavender scented drawer — long-silk underwear. They really do keep me warm, just like she promised. Holes naturally “fill in” all by...
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I Saw You On The Playground
I was completing one of the million errands I need to run for your brothers, the house, or the refrigerator. Is was after 11 a.m., and there you all were, outside for noon recess, scattered in...
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He’s Appeared There Longer Than Most Kids Have
That’s because he started showing up at the elementary school when he was a baby: Related posts:No, I want it like thisH...Fire safety ladder, yes or no? ...Wet Eyes&...Good Strong Word...
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When The World Spins Out, and You’re Not Moving
She asked “What will it be like?” To send away the son, after only 18 years, off to another state, to college. Oh, that’s easy, I explained. You simply walk around feeling like the left side of your...
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I Need A Hug
The camp is close to home… and we thought we would stop by after dinner time and drop off some extra Gatorade.. and say Hi. He was walking from the commons, heading back to his dorm when we spotted...
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It’s Not As Bad As My Imagination Tells Me It’s Going To Be
His “box” from college is sitting in the basement, waiting for us to pack him up and take him back. The same box we loaded last fall. The box has sat “untouched” since he came home last May. He no...
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Seeing It As Just One More Big Adventure
When I heard the words, I deliberately decided this news would not send me into panic, fear, terror or depression. Denial, this was not. Rather, a purposeful decision to let the words sink in while I...
View ArticleWhen We All Breathe Under the Same Roof
Now that so many universities are on semesters, there is this sweet little two day bonus, called Fall Break. It’s actually more like three school days, and plus the weekend — so it’s almost like a...
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Just Two Short Years Ago
You had still had baby cheeks. And whatever I said, seemed to make the sun rise or set on your dreams,,,, because a dream for you then, only had a ten-hour lifespan. Whenever i look back at any of...
View ArticleDear Son, Regarding Those Bad Days
I won’t tell you what my mom used to say to me, when I would call her and tell her about the two bad things that happened to me; she would always say, bad things come in threes… So I wonder what’s next...
View ArticleLaughing at Our Tears
It’s one of those silly things that well-meaning older people say to you when you’re in distress… “Someday, you’ll laugh about this…” And you roll your eyes, and you keep on crying… because you know...
View ArticleThe Nightmare that Comes After Deep and Tormented Sleep…
Excerpt from an upcoming story, yet to be published, based on an interview I did with an amazing woman: Almost like a nightmare after a long, deep and tormented sleep, she shares the story of a life...
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Stressed Out
It’s hard, when the Spotify channel blares from the phone they carry from room to room throughout the house, to ignore the words that come out of that tiny speaker. Almost piercing, with direct stabs,...
View ArticleAre You Thirsty?
We are so good at not asking for help, at not showing our weakness; as if doing so would be the ultimate betrayal of our own private selves. We carry on like the heroes that we are not, so...
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Are You Claustrophobic?
Well, I finally did get that cup of tea… but I had many miles to go, and a high price to pay before I got it. When the pain subsided, a guy from the mountain rescue team asked me to stand. He took one...
View ArticlePerhaps Walking Is Overrated?
I started physical therapy last Monday to rebuild strength in my leg. The leg has been locked in a brace for three weeks for the purpose of building scar tissue around the MCL. The task in front of me...
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I Wanted to See His Name… Not Just Touch It
“If you find it, try to get a photograph of his name… Everyone always brings me back a rubbing…. But I want to see his name, high up on that wall that everyone says is so hard to reach.” I want to see...
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When the Day Was Long
I saw all of those pictures on Facebook. Back-to school pics, kids holding signs marking the year and grade. I gave up trying — I didn’t even give the idea of getting that first day of school pic a...
View ArticleHer Mother Was In Town
And, I don’t think I had seen her mother in over 15 years. So, even though I knew they were both busy, we found a time for me to sneak over for 15 minutes to see her. Yes, she had aged in the years I...
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