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Right Before Christmas
It was days before Christmas and if you came to my house, you would see nothing festive–according to my spouse. The tree, the lights, and each tchotchke he remembered, was trapped in the attic with a bad memory from September. At a Christmas craft gathering with girlfriends and wine, I’d created a garland that…
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The Hot Seat
Merriam Webster defines this noun as a position of uneasiness, embarrassment, or anxiety. Most of my hot seat moments took place at school. In the third grade, I got so excited about getting to walk in the rain to school that when I got there and took off my outerwear, I realized I had not…
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Dad, the Dog and the Bad Decision
I was ten and it was a perfect summer day. The air was filled with the scent of clover and there were no plans. No bible school, no baseball games or scout activities. No need to wear shoes. No cars coming in or going out of our tiny neighborhood, which meant kids owned the street.…
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3 Gardening Tips I Learned From My Mother (and one from Home Depot)
Every place we lived when I was a kid displayed my mother’s love of gardening. When we lived with my grandparents, she built a long and narrow flower garden behind the clothesline. Its florescence could be seen through every window on that side of the house. And when she and my grandmother hung laundry, the…
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I’m in this book…
We lived half of my childhood with my grandparents in a very large house on a beautiful lot with giant fruit trees where I spent hours outdoors exploring. While my dad went to college and he and my mom saved to buy a house of their own, I walked to school; made lots of…
