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Inside the Publix Grocery Store in the Time of Anarchy
Author’s Note: The following humor column was written on May 15, 2021, a few days after the CDC eased its mask guidance. The author has...
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- Dec 23, 2020
- 4 min
Southern Belles and Carpet Buzzers
The fearless woman who helped demolish my garage cabinets was crouched on my staircase, painting the walls when I asked if her partner, a...
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- Nov 14, 2020
- 4 min
In Celebration of the Common Riffraff
Looming from her second-floor balcony, the owner confronted me, twitchy as a highlighted chicken. “You weren’t expecting to come inside,...
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- Oct 18, 2020
- 2 min
The Sausage on the Roof
This essay was written while my daughter was still in Nepal: When my boyfriend Mickey first hurled the slice of cooked Italian sausage...
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- Oct 4, 2020
- 6 min
Black Mermaids Matter
Months before the brutal police killing of George Floyd, before the protests when I made a sign saying, “I Can’t Breathe” and "Stop the...
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- May 18, 2020
- 7 min
Crossing by Myself
Editor’s Note: I wrote this travelogue-style essay in November 2018, while visiting my daughter Caroline during her service with Peace...
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- Sep 20, 2018
- 1 min
Why I Was Mean - From Eckerd Review
My goal, in this nonfiction essay, was to provide a first-hand report on what Russ Douthat described in The New York Times as the 1970s...
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- Sep 17, 2018
- 1 min
Finding Mom's Gun - from Gravel Magazine
“You need to find her gun and hide it,” my sister mumbled while our mother, propped in a hospital bed, prattled on about finding Bigfoot....
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- Sep 12, 2018
- 1 min
Tagged - from Atticus Review
Based on my partner’s encounter with U.S. Customs officials at Dulles airport, this essay is a romantic exploration of the discrimination...
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- Sep 3, 2018
- 1 min
That Damned Skateboard
At her neck’s nape, the red splotch still lurks, a sunny chick’s fuzz covers the scar of snarling angels, roaring, refusing her newborn...
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