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Does hurt never end?
by M M.
views: 26 | rating: 10 | comments: 9
April 16, 2007 12:44 AM EDT -- An incident: a woman I had regarded as my best friend for ten years invited me for coffee. "So lovely to hear your voice," she'd said in her voicemail mesage, a response to my having called . . . more
June 04, 2007 10:39 AM EDT -- I begin my discussion of this important and controversial work with a caveat. I was brought up within the strictures of fundamentalist Christianity, a force I consider deeply virulent in the world. I have . . . more
June 29, 2007 09:50 AM EDT -- Quick. Can you: 1.    Name the Four Gospels? 2.    List the Ten Commandments? 3.    Name a sacred text of Hinduism? 4.    Name the . . . more
April 17, 2007 11:36 PM EDT -- We edit the pain. This is how we survive. But it remains like shrapnel under skin and rises, and sometimes breaks the surface. But it does not break us. Sometimes it disfigures, or makes us perfect . . . more
04-13-07: Friday
by M M.
views: 4 | rating: 10
April 13, 2007 04:59 PM EDT -- Four, thirteen, seven. Haiku: just numbers, not bad or good. Just numbers. more
Not What I Wanted . . .
by M M.
views: 21 | rating: 10 | comments: 2
April 15, 2007 08:03 PM EDT -- to do on a glorious Sunday afternoon in April. I went to bed. I slept for hours under a down quilt while children played in tank tops, neighbors walked their dogs, and the garden tugged at me like the . . . more
The Day Wrestles Me to the Ground
by M M.
views: 29 | rating: 9.8 | comments: 11
April 27, 2007 12:52 PM EDT -- Woke up sad, barely able to move, smell of burnt toast and the ashes of a bad day already begun - my son awake, three-thirty in the morning. Panic and pacing all night and I was afraid the house . . . more
April 30, 2007 11:43 AM EDT -- And the forsythia blooms. I hope it is in the right spot this year, gathering all of the sunlight my shady yard has to offer. I've lost three of them. This time I am careful to follow the planting . . . more
Winterkill
by M M.
views: 27 | rating: 9.8 | comments: 6
April 25, 2007 12:20 AM EDT -- It is the butterfly bushes I mourn most deeply and the monarchs that will not come because of that: the deaths lead to absence, the guests invited but the dinner unprepared. It is the white . . . more
Ten Free Minutes: Word Game
by M M.
views: 14 | rating: 10 | comments: 4
June 18, 2007 11:21 AM EDT -- Ten Free Minutes: Word Game   My philosophy is as follows: Beg for ten free minutes, and then seize them. No, do not beg  for what is rightfully yours.   Just reach out your hand, . . . more
Dad, The Day After His Day
by M M.
views: 9 | rating: 10 | comments: 4
June 18, 2007 02:20 PM EDT -- He was a mystery to me, in a great many ways: a silent, stoic man who grew up on a ranch in South Dakota, speaking only Norwegian for the first years of his life. I have a picture of him standing on a . . . more
April 23, 2007 12:59 AM EDT -- Over the past several Sunday evenings, I have been watching Planet Earth on the Discovery Channel. A simply amazing series, much of it revolving around the ebb and flow of nature: spring and fall; night . . . more
May 07, 2007 12:17 PM EDT -- When a child is born, you want only the best for that new life. You look into the fathomless blue eyes and think of days to come. A boy. Bicycles and Little League. Scouts - maybe even Eagle Scout. Girlfriends . . . more
 
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