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To pick up and start saying, again, “It’s been so long since I wrote…!” would do very little but state the obvious and make me feel sheepish even to be updating again.

I spent some time, before writing this, updating the site’s appearance. It had literally not been updated since I ( Read more... )

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For a few years now I’ve tried to take different looks at love on Valentine’s Day. First I looked at how much I loved the holiday when I was a kid, when it was about friendship, philia. Then I wrote about agape. The next year I spent time talking about love of family (storge, to ( Read more... )

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Happy Boxing Day! I hope everyone’s had a lovely holiday, no matter how you celebrated your day off work. If you didn’t get the day off work, thank you for your service at the hours no one else wants to work.

This year I took today and tomorrow off. Usually I don’t have leave left, ( Read more... )

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My father didn’t believe that I should be taught to read before I got to school. He had learned to read when he was three, and by the time his class in school got around to sounding out Dick and Jane, the teacher just let him sit in a corner with Treasure Island while she tended to ( Read more... )

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Thinking back, I’m not sure when it was - winter or summer, spring or fall. Logic and the process of elimination lead me to believe it was probably sometime in 1989. I didn’t have a phone in my room but there was one in the next room over that was basically mine. It was a cheap ( Read more... )

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There’s a story I’d like to tell you. Once there was a woman who met a man, and they got married the way you’re supposed to, and they had a kid the way you’re supposed to. Not much else went the way it was supposed to go, though. The ending was bad, I mean the ending of the marriage ( Read more... )

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It rises up, the grief. It comes up at happy times, and perversely stays away at sad ones. It wants to defy anticipation. “Here is a day I will feel it,” I’ll think, and then it will not appear, only to come up at another time.

When it is fresh, it doesn’t have to rise up. It is ( Read more... )

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I don’t tell this story that often, because I don’t feel like it’s entirely mine to tell. My grandmother passed away years ago, however, and I’m sure she wouldn’t mind me sharing the story with you.

When I was maybe ten, twelve years old tops, my mother and grandmother and I took a ( Read more... )

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Another year, another love letter. For the past few years, I’ve written about different kinds of love for Valentine’s Day - love for friends, love for humanity in general, love for family. I’ve had the great good fortune to work on lots of things I love lately, experiencing love in ( Read more... )

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