Time In A Shoebox
I’d meant to organize my photos – twenty-years worth that lived in shoe boxes in closets and cupboards throughout the house. I hadn’t...
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Willows and Pines
Weeping willow trees aren’t sad at all. They may look like they have been crying, with their branches hanging down gently, but they are...
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No Kids
Paul and Miriam met the old-fashioned way. He was working in her father’s law firm. She didn’t work much. When the mood struck, she’d...
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Piano Practice
A shared love of playing the violin by my parents brought me into this world. Set up on a blind date by mutual friends, it cemented their...
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Daddy’s Little Girl
A twist of the knob, a click of the door, the quiet but heavy footsteps trying not to wake any of the home’s supposedly sleeping...
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The Woman in the Mirror
I stood before the dresser and stared at my reflection in the mirror behind it. I knew it didn’t make sense, but part of me had hoped to...
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The Lady and Her Angel
Inexplicable, my commanding officer called him. He dared not repeat the whispers echoed by his subordinates, as if speaking made the...
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Bachelorette Party
Bachelorette Party Miriam claims she’s annoyed, but when the server asks if we’d care for anything else, round two gets ordered before I...
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Ckeckmate Crush
Life is a lot like chess. Just when you think you have learnt all the rules and know how to play, life forks you. Soon you need to decide...
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Appetite Lost
As soon as the door of the T opened at her stop, the last stop on the green line, a gust of wintry air blasted Nancy back, scolding her...
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Rooted by the Iroquois
My memories come back to me in little pieces of time and place; small threads woven together. Sometimes, I wonder why I have certain...
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Hurricane Sandy and Argo
Two days after Hurricane Sandy knocked out power and filled the cellar of our rental house with water, my middle school aged son John and...
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The Medium and Empath
I met Derek on a hospital stay in the psychiatric ward, while I was being hospitalized for my bipolar disorder. He was unlike any person...
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The Inheritance of Truth
"Hey, do you know where Chip's will is?" My brother-in-law asked my mother. Chip bragged often about his wealth. Some family members...
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The Cure for Envy
There was no other word for it. It was envy. Strolling through the dense forest surrounding Lutterworth Manor, Lady Alice contemplated...
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Insomniac
They say he cannot reach me, cannot touch me. They say anxiety breeds him, makes him. He’s real enough to me. Those shocking, sibilant,...
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Lessons from Wild Boy
He was a toddler who played with plastic dinosaurs, Tonka trucks, and dirt. My eldest made me feel like an accomplished mama because...
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Zen Labyrinth
What if Zen gardens Were mazes to trap the mind In a song of stones ~ Henry Beissel sand ripples fan out as echoes of mindfulness 'mid...
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The Business Trip
Andrew lives two doors down in a split-level, which is a house that only has half of a second floor. We play at my house, though, because...
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New birds
This is what being alive is all about. Turn on the tap and hold your hand under. See – you’ve created something wonderful – a waterfall,...
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Emergence
Before me pavement leads to winter-bleached grass and a dirt ball field, so dull I long for some greenery. I lead my dog, Sadey, toward...
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Marooned
Ottawa River flooding, 2019 here I sit, abandoned by those who claimed to love me my lake enlarged to mimic the late Champlain Sea...
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The Wager
The gambling had been going on all day and into the evening. Now, it was approaching midnight, and they were still at it. Elizabeth had...
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Egg Rolls on Telegraph Avenue
1973 Telegraph Avenue rolled out of bed mid-morning. Sleepyheads, aging hippies and the homeless emerged about the same time—crusty eyed,...
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