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What The Years Have Done

Cars are parked in the grass, the overflow under the trees, because the short gravel driveway is already tightly stacked with cars. The noses of the cars all point to the back door, where there is only...

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Origami in Retrospect

He’s had a request to make some origami dresses for a “client.” As an added benefit, he’s going to make a centerpiece — but he was at a loss of what to make. But I wasn’t. I started going through the...

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Out of All The Christmas Books, This Is The One

Out of all of the books I have read to the boys over the years, this book, in fact, this page, was the most treasured one of all. Here we have Mrs. Clause rolling out cookie dough, while the elves work...

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Conquering Some Demons

Another snow day, the kids wanted to go skiing, they needed a driver. Why not me? And as I pondered what it would be like to work in the lodge, writing on my laptop, I realized I had no deadlines. In...

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Transcendence Leaves Us With Just Enough

If you had told me 40 some years ago, when I was sitting in my cousin’s bedroom listening to the 45 of American Pie, that one night, I would drive home from a track meet with my son and his friends,...

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The Lucky Ones

This beautiful onion was left in the lake house all winter long, from some time last fall. Trapped in the dark cold, it managed to create life for three new onions that are drawing nutrients from its...

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The Visit

Before I reached down to touch her, I said her name, so that she wouldn’t be frightened. As soon as she heard the first sounds of my voice, she looked toward me with eyes that could not see me and...

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I Knew So Much When I Was 40

But, now, I’m my 50s, I am much humbler. I am in awe at how vast and wonderful the world is, and how there is not just one or even three ways to do something — but one million. This is a vast and...

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Then, I Would Have Finally Had My Daughter

When Rosie was in the hospital, she needed two blood transfusions to stop the blood from filling up in her lungs, from the rat poison she ingested. Rosie leaving the hospital… a little drugged, no...

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Mining The Best Memories

There’s a time and place for Stephen King, no doubt… but in a world full of incessant darkness, this is not the time. Her world is already dark; she is blind. The nursing home does provide her with...

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