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The God of Ice Cream: Mini Essays about Overeating
It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils…
Sep 29
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Three Rainbows on a Stringer
Early on, in the first years of the unfolding 1980’s, when my world was simple and plain and lean, I recall walking up on this older guy at the edge of…
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Atlantic City
But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to…
Sep 15
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Someone Standing in the Yard
If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles. - Walt Whitman There is this unfinished stone patio behind our house. It’s nothing much. There…
Sep 8
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Seven Turns
1. In the kitchen, we clear off the island, make it deserted. The candles and the thrift store Day of the Dead Madonna & Child statue and the dying wild…
Sep 1
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This is How You Save Me
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. - Anne Frank If…
Aug 25
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The Matted Heat Form
The reason life is so strange is that so often people have no choice. ― William Maxwell On the bus, you feel the loneliness. It starts in as you pass…
Aug 18
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Tougher Than the Rest
Well, it’s Saturday night. The last hours of our beach vacation have drifted away from us. Ragged and sun-whipped, I pick myself up from my chair on the…
Aug 11
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