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How To Make a Father
There may come a time that you might wake up in the middle of the night and say to yourself—I think I would like to be a father. You will roll over excitedly and peer at your sleeping wife, her brow...
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Growing up
Me: “I have been thinking. I want to be a writer when I grow up.” Him: “You can be anything you want to be. But never grow up.” —————————————————————————————— Does it happen all of a sudden? Did you...
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One True Thing
It’s December’s end, it’s that time again. Before you make another resolution, you could consider this: 2015 is unwritten. Clean. Blank, unraveling spaces. A year from now, there will be a story of...
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Finishing
Tomorrow I will load up my backpack with sharpened number #2 pencils and brand new textbooks and head off, once again, to begin yet another semester of university learning. It will be the 8th...
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Old Books and Young Lovers, 1927.
I collect old things. All kinds of different, forgotten, well-loved and now abandoned things. Things like soft pink shirtwaists with cinching belts that I find between the racks of halter tops at the...
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You Can Let Go Now
There are two things I know for certain about letting go: 1) no matter how much you know you must, your heart will crack a little 2) and however small the opening, you will always have a window of...
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You Have Written Before
She was thinking about writing. All morning long, she read the beautiful words of others. Was she looking for inspiration? She read quotes in fancy script on her computer screen. She went to the...
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Thirty Six Years of Unremarkable Growth
Wake up, it is early December and filled with only rain. There is still time, for a White Christmas. But Christmas is a million miles away and tomorrow is my 37th birthday. Feed my children pop-tarts...
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The Dead
Did you hear about Bill? That was all the text said. No, I hadn’t heard. But with those words alone, I knew. I knew that it was something bad anyway. He passed away. The next text came through before...
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To My Husband, On The Occasion Of Our Third Wedding Anniversary
It’s our wedding anniversary, and you are in California, 2,000 miles away from me. Anniversaries are intangible, I know. They are just one day, just a souvenir of what time has measured out and what...
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