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Each morning I remind myself that I have carved out these couple of months of solitude to practice taking care of myself in the deepest…
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I’m telling myself. The phrase seems to suggest something like a resolution, an aspiration, a mantra, as if talk was a sort of incantation. And…
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I asked my friends about him. They filled me in: he was rich man’s son, smoked two packs a day, guzzled his coffee black, was…
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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…
Keep ReadingMy spouse awakened me this morning with all the lights on in the bedroom with the words “Mauna Loa is erupting!”. It was about 5:00am…
This is your house. At least for now, at the moment. The place you take me to, the space you call “home.” You know in…
I have serious objections to lines in many American "holy documents". You know, lines like these: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all…
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My body is none other than that of this island, and I carry the knowledge of what is required to sustain and heal myself, who…
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I was born into a violent family. It started generations ago in Montenegro. Always there was war and genocide. My Baba escaped with her two…
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I rode the bus yesterday. It was quite deliberate, I had other choices. My car went into the shop. It's cold here, and sadly, some…
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This is your house. At least for now, at the moment. The place you take me to, the space you call “home.” You know in…
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I have serious objections to lines in many American "holy documents". You know, lines like these: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all…
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My spouse awakened me this morning with all the lights on in the bedroom with the words “Mauna Loa is erupting!”. It was about 5:00am…
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Do something for more than a few days and it becomes normal, even the slow walk down this long hallway to visit her deathbed. In…
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You died at 4:47 A.M. on a Thursday, which is when Stephen called me at my hotel to tell me you had left us. He…
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Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and I'm going to spend it with my boyfriend and his Mom as well as good friends of ours, people I dig…
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The true meaning of aloha brings to mind the image of Pacific Islanders, nose to nose, looking into each other’s eyes and literally sharing breath,…
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The first photograph of a human being was taken by accident in Paris 1838. Although you may not know it at first. The metal photo…
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At night, the wind whips across the sky and rattles the stone walls of the house where I am trying to sleep. The wind is…
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