Bits of Life
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Dressing for a Funeral
I purged my closet this summer. A big purge that included almost all of my long pants that aren’t sweats. I’ve just started replacing the winter stuff I need now…
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I hope you fly
I realized I didn’t hit publish on the final installment of my personal pregnancy story last week and I will publish that one tomorrow. I’m moving this one forward because…
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From Fool to Forgiveness
When she dies, I’m going to write a story about her. I made the threat a million times. I’d write it as a work of fiction to cover my ass,…
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Magical Places
I don’t know who first showed me my magical place, but I know I was quite young. It’s a free place, open at all hours, with a vast amount of…
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The Morning Argument
I don’t want to get out of bed. The silk sheets have warmed to me, the dogs are in their beds, content. There’s nothing that says I have to get…
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Sacred Spaces
The sacred spaces of a homebody…It’s a difficult task to describe places that are sacred to me, the person who jokes about home being the only sacred space. The girl…
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Earth Girl
I don’t know if I ever was an earth girl. Of course, I’m an earthling, born and raised here, but the earth itself was never my favorite place. There’s a…
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A little self love
A little self love experiment from class tonight. Damn girl, Look what you’ve done. Pregnant at nineteen, single mom at twenty, now you’re a wannabe fairy living your dream life…
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I Wish I'd Asked
A little course work on ancestors… They remind us they love us in their own peculiar ways. Janice with her flower talk, Ilene with her frosting. Giving bits of themselves…
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In Barbie World…
Growing up, I was a Barbie Girl. I had everything a young girl in the 80s needed for the perfect Barbie World and it occupied most of my closet floor.…