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A4 and The Great Beyond
We drove on roads covered with silt from the recent floods. The river ran turgid and swift carrying entire trees on its current, great...
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Worse Than Real Life
“Where’s your father?” my mother says. The kitchen smells of roast beef like it does most Sundays and my mother is stirring the gravy as...
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The Mountain is Out Today
For all their bulk and grandeur, mountains are as capricious as the weather. One day stark and majestic against a blue sky, the next...
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The Complete Idiot's Christmas
Christmas Eve, 1970. My husband and I are leaving his mother’s house on Long Island and heading to visit his dad in Hartford. We load...
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Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
I can’t say when the hair follicles on my legs went into retirement, but I think it was around the time those on my chin began joining...
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First Stop, Brendizi
The street was dead quiet, empty of cars and pedestrians, the shops shuttered and dark. The cab rolled down the gleaming stone pavement...
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Brungot's Barn
The barn collapsed during the winter of '69-'70, the infamous year of the big snow. It wasn't the only building that succumbed that...
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Messing About
I wipe my smudged hands on my apron, then with my index finger swirl the yellow and orange of the stars as they blaze against the vivid...
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My Grandmother's Rocker
Near a window in the den of the house I grew up in sat my grandmother’s rocking chair. It wasn’t an ordinary rocker; it was a platform...
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Of Dinks and Droods
Once we were DINKS. You might remember that somewhat dubious distinction from the 1980's. We were given that unflattering label because...
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