Browsing Category Essay & Memoir
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Reciprocal Identities
I admit a degree of relief that my youngest daughter is so different from me. My bookshelves are lined with novels and two editions of The Norton Anthology ...
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What Kobe Bryant’s Dear Basketball Can Teach Us About Legacy
It’s been about five months since Kobe Bryant died in a fatal helicopter crash that killed nine people including his thirteen year old daughter Gianna. As the world ...
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The Secret Life of an Old Maine Shoe
The shoe didn’t fit, but its worn condition told me that it had fit someone once, some woman to be more exact; but that was probably about 140 ...
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Pastries in the Backcountry
I was in the Grand Teton National Park, carrying bear spray, a bell, and a set of instructions memorized in case I ran into a bear. The water-logged ...
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Will Work for Textbooks
Jack was breaking the rules of our arrangement the first time he told me he loved me. I was twenty-four years old, and I was his sugar baby. ...
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Diastema: The Spaces Between
I’ve had a sizable gap between my two front teeth for my entire life, and for most of it, I’ve wanted to get rid of it. Or I’ve ...
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Echolocation
When I was 13 and my parents were doing okay, we had a house with pillars. It was just a split-level ranch, but the pillars and our long ...
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Sphincters I Have Known and Lost
“You want to hear about all the times I’ve had tubes shoved up my penis?” There’s a sentence I never thought I would ever speak or write to ...
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Kinship
On the evening of Valentine’s Day, 2019, Marisa, Arianna and I gathered at Kinship where Marisa worked as a hostess. She had just left a film production job ...
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Let’s (not) Talk about Sex
My girls were seven and three when we decided to raise chickens. It was a group effort until the moment the cute phase was over and the hen ...
