2013 Category

Trip of a Lifetime

Before the wake of incinerated wreckage blazed a black slick of surface – just alit and just afire – we were all aboard in the early evening departure reserved only for overseas flights excitement budding in baggage barely checked and almost left behind – Look at all you poor bastards we’re leaving Aren’t you so […]

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Beyond Loss

David and Goliath: The Story of How My Kid Fought Life’s Battles…and Won Everyone knows the story of David and Goliath, right?  David is weak.  A small fry.  He is the inconsequential youth who triumphs over his giant foe, Goliath, with only a small sling and a stone (oh, yeah, and also God), only to […]

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Girls with Journals: Why I’m Not a Real Writer

I always wanted to be the type of girl who kept a journal.  Someone who wrote droll daily observations in a pretty, Paisley diary from Barnes and Noble, thinly-lined.  Something a Jane Austen character would daintily clutch, while wearing some Georgian empire-waisted dress, cleverly sitting down in a sunny morning room to jot down flawlessly […]

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