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Brick City Birthday Girl
Posted on March 11, 2014 2 Comments
There is a thrumming drone of Quiet Cool versus Hayward filter, bubbled up with beads of late evening horseplay – cannonballs jumped off the side fence, dusted with specks of HTH, and tired cicada banter, twisted timeless and tipping into moonlit-gilded white birch bark. Late June crackling and crunching beneath our Dr. Scholl’s – Goddamnit, […]
The Gift of Dreams Realized
Posted on March 3, 2014 Leave a Comment
Mothers spend a considerable amount of time daydreaming about the future of their unborn children ~ especially mothers relegated to bed rest at any point during pregnancy. In the left side-lying position I was obligated to assume for the last month before my son, David, was born in November of 2000, I often dreamt of […]
Between Sainthood and Resentment is….Reality
Posted on March 2, 2014 1 Comment
When I was young and healthy and had no idea what it meant to be old or unhealthy – let alone young and unhealthy – I decided to become a nurse. I had no particular affinity for the sick, and probably could have gone as far as to say I disliked sick people, although I […]
A Girl by the Bridge 
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