memories
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7 February Life Changing Encounters
the smooch-off
July, 1965 such a simple mistake—but, come on, I was only eighteen, ‘til now I could maybe boil water, cooking…
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7 February Life Changing Encounters
Reconciliation
It’s a beautiful Saturday night in downtown Charleston. I’m sitting at a piano bar with my husband and some friends…
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6 January Coming Home to Yourself
Waving
A memoir? You’re what, 30? 37. A memoir? What have you really got to say? You haven’t lived enough to…
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5 December Making Family
Baltimore
Do you recall? The three of you Were somewhat small, your brother but A tell-tale throb within my fast Approaching-forty-year-old…
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5 December Making Family
Ridicule
It was a perfect winter in Sölln, Tirol. It had been snowing for weeks and now frost glazed the soft…
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5 December Making Family
First Contact
Upstate New York is known for its heavy snowpack, but on Christmas Eve 1963 my front lawn was brown and…
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5 December Making Family
Someday
Someday, she would come with the lamp and say it is all I have Someday, I would stand below that…
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5 December Making Family
How to Go Straight
I love the taste of snow. “Don’t eat that—you don’t know where it’s been—” New snow. We have a…
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Making Family, Making Memories: December Call
December is a time often fraught with challenges of place, home and community. Holiday season has begun. I’ve watched friends’…
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