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When your boyfriend won't lend you money when you need it. He thinks I'm leading a secret life he doesn't know about because I never…
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I’ve always thought it odd that, while my sisters and brother are the most religious of we 4, I am the most spiritual. To the…
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[More Susan…] I remember that first ride atop Robusto. When they saddled him up Western at my instruction, his forelocks remained rooted to the packed…
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When it comes down to it, she hasn't kept anything. Not the china or the silverware, not the enormous flat-screen television she never wanted in…
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To be honest, I'd never even heard of the term "social isolation" until this whole virus took hold of all of our lives and everything…
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Over the course of a fifty year friendship, some of which years were even spent married to each other, there will be times, inevitably, when…
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Our cubicles were tucked away in a back corner, away from the swirl of brokers on phones and the TV monitors running CNBC and Fox…
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NEW CHAPTER ONE “How will I explain this to my kids?” I asked myself over and over as Mom drove us down Highway 99 towards…
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A writer I know of, a nature writer, in fact a staff member of a revolutionary kind of magazine called “Emergence” held several seminars where…
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My father died when I was 16. For years I missed him with a ferocity that grabbed me by surprise, sometimes out of nowhere, and…
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Over the course of a fifty year friendship, some of which years were even spent married to each other, there will be times, inevitably, when…
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Sense. Common sense. Half sensed. Sensing what is going on. The sixth sense. It makes no sense. I am sensing you are. I am sensing…
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Here I am in my little writing corner, my private bathroom to my left, my windows open wide to the sky and the 19 floors…
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Isn't that God's job? To love us all, I mean. Once He created us all, created IT all, didn't He make some promise or concoct…
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Holding the days as if death were not in the background, is necessary, and yet, I find there are no roads without edges. Those edges…
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You sit all day, your ass grows tired, As the teacher teaches and the others talk . You pray that you’ll become inspired, though Instead…
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"All the years of sorrow?" Well, this topic is so easy, and easy too to see it is a trap. Someone, trying to be helpful,…
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When your boyfriend won't lend you money when you need it. He thinks I'm leading a secret life he doesn't know about because I never…
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