Tag: family
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Naming The Big “A”
There’s a mom from my daughter’s school who is a very nice person. Super nice. She’s a little too chipper and rosy-cheeked for my taste. (Unwarranted enthusiasm makes me nervous.) Whenever I see her, I do my best to smile and not crack a sarcastic joke. The other day we were sitting next to each other waiting for our daughters’ dance class to…
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My Dearest Father
This is a photograph of sunrise over Columbus Ohio, January 5th 2012. It is taken from the eighth floor of Riverside Hospital, the morning after my father had surgery to remove his cancerous prostate. I had flown home to Ohio from California to be with him during the surgery. After…