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The Gift

For my first birthday with you, you gift me The Prophet by Khalil Gibran. You know I’m a poet and have been reading each...

Notes From a Veteran Querier

If you’ve written a book and want to publish through a traditional publisher, you’ll need a literary agent and to get one, you’ll need...

Some Girls Have All the Luck, Some Girls Have All the Pain

The week I read Emily May’s essay collection Some Girls, I visit the Wayne Thiebaud exhibit “Art Comes From Art” at the Legion of...

Tupperware

There are three houses. One, two, three. All next to each other in one straight line. A mini neighborhood just for us, just for...

The Art of Letting Go

I followed our moving van over Boston's Tobin Bridge from Gloucester, Massachusetts. I was newly divorced; my four-year-old boy was belted into his car...

Dinner Party

“Dinner at 7?” Kristin texts and out of habit I find the thumbs-up emoji and hit send. But then it’s 6:50 and Acadia calls...

Without a Trace: A Life with Oil

1. My father was an oil man whose career coincided with the rise of oil and the beginning of its decline. I grew up in...

Serena and Judy Go Bowling

I. Judy had broken up with her girlfriend and Serena had agreed to go drinking with her, to commiserate. Judy envisioned a tearful, sloppy bender...

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The Essentials

Happy Friday

Night Flight to L.A.

Midnight Run by the River Lune @ 21

The sky lit up like a cigarette factory of the nearly-forgotten; a restless rest stop crowded with ghosts and fog. The situation calmed me as did the eyeballs of...

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Early Onset Dementia

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Notes From a Veteran Querier

If you’ve written a book and want to publish through a traditional publisher, you’ll need a literary agent and to get one, you’ll need...

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