Category: family
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Glow, Baby, Glow

aka The Path to the Yellow Brick Road Don’t worry, pixie is still in paradise. The proverbial “paradise” was never necessarily just a place, though that affects my soul deeply as it probably does many people. Some people aren’t as sensitive to their environment; others, like me, are. We are very acutely affected by our…
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Amish Ambulance
The text I sent at 09:13am Wednesday morning to my closest friends just hours after my arrival in Wisconsin for a family visit: “Man down, man down! We just left the house and one of us is wearing a camouflage “Make America Great Again” hat. We’re about to pick up three to four Amish people…
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Angels in the Outfield
I guess if you want to call me a writer, then there were a couple of others in my family as well. My dad – the water witch – who does have a way with words, but has not cultivated that art, had a father and a sister who did. My grandpa and Aunt Edie…