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In July 2025, in a big grassy park in Dublin, California, 500 plus people are gathered, holding signs that say, "Resist," "We Did This Already,"…
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Does it snow in Brooklyn? Yesterday a friend told me she was thinking about moving to Brooklyn. “Back to Brooklyn,” was the way she put…
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Finally, I decided to give her my old fur coat, though I pretty much suspected she’d sell it for her daily fix, and so she…
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Things went down for Gail - fast. Everyone saw it, she was no longer the working ranch woman who never seemed to get dirty driving…
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Last year my sister asked me, “Did you always want to be a writer?” I looked up from my MacAir that morning, sitting at her…
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Beauty as Truth Of all the shocks from Hitler’s Germany of 1933, the one that cut Agatha the deepest was Germany’s withdrawal from the League…
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Sweet sticky substances, like honey and jam , and that scoop of ice cream falling off your cone and melting in the hot sun…these things…
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What happened here? Here, in this flat, where I am living right no?. Well, I’ll start with here. Here in what I call my home…
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In July 2025, in a big grassy park in Dublin, California, 500 plus people are gathered, holding signs that say, "Resist," "We Did This Already,"…
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I do believe the purest definition of poetry is simply the magnificent way this earth we dwell on presents itself on every single day it…
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Patty felt her obligation was to take care of her parents, John and Masako, when they got into their 90s and couldn't take 100% care…
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Isn’t the wish to have things simple a wish assigned to the old? And is it a wish only about technology? What young person has…
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There was a time when I was flying on one aircraft or another to some job or other, some family emergency or other, some event…
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