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The kind of life lived for red lipstick and poppy fields.
I never knew much of a woman named Dee. Sepia-stained photographs tell me she knew what it meant to stand laughing at life. Dee. She is a woman I only know from photographs and stories that slip out from behind … Continue reading
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Meet Hannah: She needs your love letter today.
It’s been tough to write here lately. If I am being honest, I work a good ten hours a day and all I am left with, when I reach the keys, is speechlessness. Over all of you and what you’ve … Continue reading
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Lady Gaga, she was born this way. Me? I was born for this.
If you’ve ever felt the love of another deeply, on the brink of fiercely, then I know you’ll pick up writing easily. Easy like the slow ease that slipped through the cracks in the doorway to the bathroom as you … Continue reading
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Your daddy is no Rumpelstiltskin and I’ve not got the bones of Betsy Ross.
Like any normal child, I started writing letters to my One Day, Some Day daughter when I was 11-years-old. I’ve been writing her into the margins of my diaries for eleven years now in hopes that one day she’ll find … Continue reading
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“Evey, Evey, I’m sorry it took so long.”
It took me fourteen years to accept Adam & Eve. Fourteen years not to cringe when someone ushered the first couple in the entire universe, the design model for Brad & Angelina and Elvis & Priscilla, into a conversation. The … Continue reading
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The Trees We’ll Plant for You… In Memory of Nate Shatsoff, a guy who outgrows the word “Hero” in our hearts.
Nate- I want to pin 10,000 words to this post but you will forever be a guy who only wanted a few words, a guy who never asked for spotlight so that you could gather the light to shine on … Continue reading
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How to Date Amazement: Step One: Let him in. Pour him a cup of tea. Ask him about his trip.
I want life to blow the ballet flats off my feet. I never– ever– want to forget what an insane blessing it is to have Fingers & Toes. Limbs & Ligaments that give me the Great Ability to really plant … Continue reading
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