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Whenever my boyfriend and I told people that we were taking a roadtrip to Bakersfield, the answer was invariably... "Why?" I will forego judgement on…
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The howling wind ringing in my ears. Even the airpods can't cancel this noise. Looking outside I see the sun is hitting the trees and…
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The train takes off down the track to hurry me back to where I began. Noise and steam crescendo to soprano range, houses and town…
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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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The morning I left Germany with three kids, $200, and seven suitcases, the rolling green hills of northern Germany looked like swirls as tears welled…
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People in the writing biz call it a “cute-meet”… a staple of every Hallmark Christmas movie or romantic comedy. When the two lonely , damaged…
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The last chance I had to spend with my mother I sat in her hospital room and graded papers. I could have been asking her…
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My mother, then well into her 81st year, lay in her hospital bed. One older sister stood and the other sat nearby. They were weary…
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Whenever my boyfriend and I told people that we were taking a roadtrip to Bakersfield, the answer was invariably... "Why?" I will forego judgement on…
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My #1 New Year's Resolution is to be more like Betty White, who said of herself: "Seriously, I'm the luckiest broad on two feet to…
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There’s nothing like death of a loved one to kill all desires in one at the same time that it brings out ridiculous emotion, strange…
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The howling wind ringing in my ears. Even the airpods can't cancel this noise. Looking outside I see the sun is hitting the trees and…
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April 20, 2020 On this day, I am laid up. Ankle got twisted last week, so grandiose plans to explore Paradise on foot all fall…
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"Best to remain unconscious." First thought, best thought? But it takes a thought even to consider this. And a thought is conscious, on a spectrum,…
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The train takes off down the track to hurry me back to where I began. Noise and steam crescendo to soprano range, houses and town…
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I had been going alone to Charlottesville for 5 Rhythms, Soul Motion and other movement workshops, for almost three years. As a good dancer, with…
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