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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CategoryGrowing Pains
Results23The 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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Intervention
I don’t know what kind of bird this is, I don’t know its sex. All I know is that for five days it occupied my backyard,
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A Journey To Now
In May I was feeling the loss of an old friend very deeply. It was his birthday month and a year since the last time I’d
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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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Fences, Fear, and Friendship Park
I live about 25 miles from the border crossing between California and Mexico and except for a ride to Rosarito Beach back in the eighties, I’ve
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Letter to an Unknown Soldier
Dear One, I may have seen you a few years ago in the months before you left for war, walking with a child in your arms
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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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Reconstruction Day
On Good Friday last year, my step-daughter checked into the hospital for the second phase of post-mastectomy reconstruction. As we packed to go help her through
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Urge to Purge
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwUf30ndgeM&w=420&h=315] Above: Four minutes of fun in Bettina’s Minimalist Kitchen, “The White Box” (In English with subtitles). The urge to purge seems to be running
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