friendship | friendship
Jun.14.2012
I’ve spent the last several years ignoring my birthday. It comes and goes; nothing special about the day; remembered by family and a few long time friends. Then last year I started getting all these notices as friends on Facebook took the time to send me good wishes. And I...
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May.16.2012
The first day of French class, everyone was speaking French except me. I managed to enter college without one day of a foreign language. The professor took a break and the girl in front of me with long, thick dark hair and large brown eyes turned to me and said, "Isn't he gorgeous?...
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Apr.30.2012
So it is still Albuquerque . I am developing a fondness for chile and for huevos rancheros on Sunday mornings with my friend, Gary. Leaves on the trees are sprouting. It is Spring, and the air is warm, even hot at midday. Over the weekend there were festivities in...
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Apr.30.2012
So it is still Albuquerque . I am developing a fondness for chile and for huevos rancheros on Sunday mornings with my friend, Gary. Leaves on the trees are sprouting. It is Spring, and the air is warm, even hot at midday. Over the weekend there were festivities in...
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Apr.29.2012
Redroom seems like the right place to praise The Way, a movie my husband and I watched last night, due to the suggestion of a friend who will soon be embarking on the “Way of St. James,” also called El Camino de Santiago. Assuming that everyone here is a thoughtful person—how can you write...
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Apr.27.2012
You Visit as a Bird, a Hat
I am dreaming or remembering.
In the backyard, a flaming hysterical cardinal (or your red cashmere cap) kneads my scalp with tiny sharp claws, as if to burrow inside.
You tell me your hair didn’t “dissolve” – you shaved it first.
And the restapled fabric of the...
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Apr.27.2012
You know that click? You say something and some stranger replies, and somehow your brains are synchronized? That's how it is with my friend Bob.
I met Bob while I was in the Air Force, when we were stationed together in Germany. I ran the Ops Center and he was a new crew member and several years...
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Apr.26.2012
Recently someone googled me and I liked it. I know that sounds dirty, excuse my horrible need to be funny. But honestly, I was flattered by the action of being googled.
I let some work contacts know I was leaving my current position and one wrote back asking if I was going to "go back to writing...
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Apr.22.2012
A friend posted about a gift she was given because of something she wrote. The recent tragedy of my grandson's unexpected (and so far unexplained) death earlier this week brought people together to offer their condolences and we shared our grief in a very public way. The obituary about Connor's...
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Apr.12.2012
Featured in Divorce, on Huffington Post.
excerpt:
He turned to me and said something I will never forget. "I'm afraid to kiss you." I asked him why and he explained that he cherished our friendship so much and feared that if we took it to a different level, we might end up losing...
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