On February 2, 2012 my husband and I hung side by side at the start of the zip line at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.
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Results24Confessions of a Bathroom Reader
Confession #1. This is for my mother who will not be shocked when she hears that yes, all those times I disappeared into the bathroom when
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Twenty Nine
When I saw the prompt for an essay contest a while back, I couldn’t get it out of my mind. The prompt was this: write about
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State of Pray: New Hampshire Memories
A while back, Mark Koopmans was looking for people across the country and beyond to represent their states or countries in a project called 50 States of Pray today.
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The Gift of Found Time
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” ― Annie Dillard A little over eight years ago my father’s heart stopped.
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Love, A La Mode
When I moved from the East Coast to San Diego in the spring of 2002, I found myself a stranger in a place that felt like
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Strangers in a Strange Land
Michael Valentine Smith may have prevented a murder back in the summer of 1974 when my brother and I were stranded in Port Angeles, Washington for
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Road Trip, One Page at a Time
With this post, I begin a month-long celebration of journeys and books. Each post will focus on a particular journey and the book that either took
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Re-entry
You know that half groan, half-shriek the gears make when you thought you were shifting your car into second and you hit reverse instead? Or, forgot
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Drinking Lessons
The distiller and I are sitting across from each other in the swelter of a Denver June afternoon, three tiny unlabeled bottles of bourbon lined up
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