him and all the ones like him
My father and my dad and my husband –all veterans, two of whom have served extensively in combat situations– all have distinct opinions on the overall accessibility of today’s military from a...
View Articleunsatisfactory leanings
You know, for some years now I’ve been trying to ‘get a hold of myself,’ to be even and mild and measured. I’m thinking that I’ve put in a lot of work that was antithetical to who I’m supposed to be. I...
View Articlestunned in about fourteen different ways.
Just got off the phone with my father. That call didn’t just elicit a couple of emotional swings, it built a whole damn swingset. Let’s focus on this one thing, though: I just got off the phone with my...
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six strong matriarchs
I remember my Mother and her sisters gathering in my grandmother’s kitchen there in the house on Quarles Lane. They always teamed up when it came to food: They canned produce enough for the families of...
View Articlebloodbuzz
I was raised in a sphere wherein things like nosebleeds were dealt with matter-of-factly. One time a guy told me he fell in love with me because I didn’t really bat an eye when he sprouted a nosebleed...
View ArticleI’m walking proof that Jesus loves Anarchists, too.
When Lucifer dropped down from Heaven And yanked a third of it, streaming, behind him, Babies throughout time startled in their mother’s wombs: A sudden jolt of a kick to interrupt the outer goings-on....
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the little universe in a box and the small blue thing
When I was small, my paternal grandmother gifted me with a little yellow suitcase. When I left home to see the world at age eighteen, it was one of the things I left behind. Thinking about it now, that...
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