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  • Magic and Other Mumbles

    My friend over the wires makes magical things in kaleidoscopic ways. This is one of them. You should listen to it. Go on, pop your headphones on, click, read, scroll…

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  • The Chefs Table

    Suspend your disbelief for a second, and imagine you’ve been invited out on a blind date. It seems promising, and you’re pretty sure you’ll – at the least – enjoy…

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  • New Glasses

    I signed up for new glasses a few weeks back. Here’s the thing: I’ve been wearing the same pair I got in 2002. The one lens is popping out, they’re…

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  • Born In A Storm… Eleven Years On.

    When I think about the way you entered this world, I marvel, every time. The panic that set in when you made no noise as you arrived into this life……

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  • Hey Mom, I’m Getting Married | Six Years

    It’s six years since we had to say goodbye. You’ve missed all of the parts I wish you could’ve seen. All those things you wished for me are coming true,…

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  • You Have A Nice Face

    As a teenager, I used to catch the bus home from university every day. If I was lucky, I could catch an early bus, then a second one and be…

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  • I worry for the quiet ones.

    The way I see it, we’re not getting anywhere close to where we need to be. Wound up in the worldly items we’re somehow taught to care about, we slowly…

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  • Less Than Par

    I like to think I’m a high-functioning human, able to complete a multitude of tasks within a day, in an ordered fashion that enables me to progress through life. That’s…

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  • 36 | 72

    This coming Saturday, I will mark my mother’s 72nd birthday. Except it’s not her 72nd birthday, because she’s not here to celebrate it. But her children are. I am. I’m…

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  • Morning Rituals

    Ask anyone who has ever lived with me, and they’ll tell you – I talk when I’m in the shower. It’s here that I get my best ideas, find that…

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