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One day I’m going to write a book, my adult son Casey tells me. It’s going to be titled “Things My Mother Never Taught Me.“ That’s not comforting news to a mother like me who homeschooled her children from kindergarten through high school and prone to fear that she...
I wake with a headache and a stiff neck. I shiver in the breeze of the open window and pull the sheet up to my chin. I breathe a prayer for those out west who can barely breathe for the heat of the air, for those who can barely breathe for the heat of life, for...
A thread unravels from the edges of her old shirt in the dryer and winds tightly around the cuff of a stray sock, collecting bits of lint like a magnet. Cupping it in her hands, she decides it looks more like a ball of yarn she accidentally threw in the dryer than a...
Gathering the basket loaded with damp clothes and towels, I step out onto the patio. I stepped out barefoot knowing the risks, as stray twigs and abandoned bubble wands press into the soles of my feet. The path ahead is sketchier than the first few steps as I must...
The hurt's so heavy, but the waiting room's so full. There's not a chair in...
Louis tells me I think too much. He’s probably right, but I was two...
How could I, who felt worthless, gain value? Whether it is pride or the...
I removed the makings of a nest. Several times. But then I got sick, and when...
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