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Category Archives: Essays

The Lloyd Dobbler Career Plan

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In Her Shoes

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Pen Pals

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Happy Birthday America

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In-Box Full

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The Promise of Friday

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Passages

It begins slowly. We put away the tiny socks, the mobile, the gemini. I folded up the onesies. The bottles and black and white patterned toys go to Goodwill. Then the pace of everything escalates: the boppies have no more use, the baby tub, the high chair, the things I tied on the crib rails...

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Phenomenal Women

Dr. Maya Angelou’s 80th birthday is today. When I was 16, I lucked into two tickets to attend a reading with Maya Angelou. I wrote to her and invited her to come to our home for dinner after the reading. Can you imagine? I just put it out there. I was thinking, I love her....

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On Writing & Confidentiality

Rebecca Walker mentioned in a lecture I attended once that she tries very hard in her writing to be honest, but to do no harm. I struggle with that too and primarily with feeling that so many stories I have to tell are not mine alone and that I am somehow stealing part of another’s...

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A Rock, A River, A Tree

I work in a law office of 50 people and in the same week, we had a birth, a funeral and a wedding. I took photographs to commemorate two of those events (links above) and maybe because of that, last week felt more important and more tangible to me. For our office manager, ordering flowers...

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