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Moving to Villa Villekulla
This piece first appeared on my blog at shareable.net. We were moving from Texas to northern California, under economic duress. There is something about driving long distances (as opposed to flying)...
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I’ll Take Your Halloween and Raise You a Thanksgiving
I’m grateful for garden gnomes, cuckoo clocks, climbing trees with gnarled branches, and moss. For coffee and chai, nutmeg and cinnamon. For citron yellow, magenta, map water blue, chartreuse, and a...
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We Are Totally Not Supposed To Talk About This AT ALL
I go back to work in a few days after psychiatric disability leave. I’ve been going to the strange little Indian psychiatrist in the broken-down office with the half-star on Yelp where I sometimes wait...
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Sleep for the weary/And dreams for us all/Rest your head on a pillow /And...
Sleep for the weary/And dreams for us all/Rest your head on a pillow /And I’ll tell you a tale Oh! An oldie but a goodie. I remember then-kindergartener Zeke walking around slowly on Back to School...
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For Amy, With Love and Squalor
Ruby was walking her five-year-old son, Cash, home, and we were keeping them company on the journey. I was pulling the kids in the trailer, but peddling so slowly that my bike was wobbling to maintain...
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