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Waiting for the Great Pumpkin

For those of you unfamiliar with Roman Catholic idiosyncracies, it is customary for the faithful – and some of the unfaithful, too – to pray to the many saints for intercession with God. In any and every situation, for every need, there is a saint to whom one might turn for help. Some sixteen years […]

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Pieta

I am the color of white sand at midnight, and Jameson slides through my veins like impossible ice peremptorily frozen in its own wake of impracticality – inside me devoid of warmth, but full of the strongest molecules of misery my blood is incapable of covalence repelling all directional attraction I am the hooded mother […]

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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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