End to the Year-long Winter
It’s been over a year of darkness, and I am longing for the light of a new dawn. The memories of what brought me to this place are so...
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Rachel Lutwick-Deaner
Aug 1513 min
Nursing Mother
“A mother who has had a baby in the hospital should insist on keeping him with her 24 hours a day. Unwrap the baby, keep him in your bed,...
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Jenn Zatopek
Jul 145 min
A Brief Remembrance of My Father
My father had moments of crystalline clarity in which he would say something that would stop me in my tracks, making me pause to catch my...
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Clare Simons
Jun 154 min
Requiem for a Contender
When Dad was dying the nurses bound his hands in yards of Ace bandages so he couldn’t pull out the life supports. The Buckeye Bomber, a...
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Madaline
May 1510 min
Straight and Narrow —X
How can somebody you don't know look at you with such disdain in their eyes? They couldn't put themselves in your shoes, because they...
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Dr. Richard Bryneston
Apr 154 min
Ash Wednesday, 2017
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. Ellen and I counted 13 muskrats as we walked around Lake Bennett that late February mild...
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Christine Brooks
Mar 156 min
Crab Soup
Had it not been for Covid-19 forcing everyone inside, I’m not sure my plan would have worked but looking back, I'm glad I acted on that...
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Susan H. Evans
Feb 133 min
The World Turns
Using Granny’s ancient knife -- the handle worn thin and the blade sharp as a razor -- I sliced big ruby tomatoes. Drops of red juice and...
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Jenn Zatopek
Jan 145 min
A Meditation of Delight
On a cold weekday morning in late winter, I meditated imperfectly leading to a wondrous moment of play, the effects of which nestled down...
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Robert D. Vivian
Nov 15, 20234 min
The Call of Every Day
Must be birdsong or the slightest nudge of breeze kissing your naked ankles and then the soft folds of your eyelids deep inside a dream...
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Angela Townsend
Oct 15, 20234 min
Recalibrating
I calibrate three times a day. I recalibrate constantly. In the time before continuous glucose monitors, I assaulted my finger a dozen...
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Jen Casselberry
Sep 15, 20232 min
Memory is a Strange Thing
Memory is a strange thing. When I was 5 years old, I had surgery on the muscles behind my eyes. All I remember from the day before the...
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Carol Zapata-Whelan
Aug 11, 202311 min
Argentina, 1990: The Road Not Taken
It is a mild winter day in Buenos Aires, August of 1990, and my uncle Cacho, dark eyes convivial, is introducing me to an old friend in...
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Niles Reddick
Jul 15, 20235 min
Calling 911 Because of a Smell
If the Lagina brothers would visit me in the dream world, I could show them right where to dig on Oak Island because I’ve discovered that...
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Natalie Y. Gutiérrez
Jun 19, 20235 min
The Pain We Carry
Much of the Latine identity today comes from past trauma. History reminds us of the colonization of the land belonging to Indigenous...
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Jenn Zatopek
May 20, 20236 min
Leaving My Mother Behind
(Content warning: this story contains sensitive material related to child sexual abuse, rape. Please read at your own discretion.) At the...
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Joel Klepac
Apr 13, 20234 min
Saguaro in the Palm: Gratitude and the Mindfulness of Death
In the midst of training for a trail race, I traveled to a conference in Phoenix. Thinking of the pain I would be in if I didn’t keep up...
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Ruth Kennedy
Mar 14, 20237 min
An Elephant in the Room
As a labor and delivery nurse of 25 years, I worked with many doctors. One of the anesthesiologists I worked with for 20 years placing...
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Rebecca M. Blackwell
Feb 13, 20236 min
Fun (and NOT so much) with Dementia: One Couple’s Journey with Love and Loss
(Note: the following are excerpts from Rebecca M. Blackwell’s book published in 2022. Here is a link for the full copy). For most people,...
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Michael J. Adee
Jan 30, 20234 min
Hope is Contagious
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in...
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