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The Art is in the Details
March 31, 2011, Santa Fe, New Mexico, where the low-slung adobes spread flat with the horizon. It’s early spring, but the colors are still winter’s chalky brown and muted pine splashed against a sailor...
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Panic of Birds
Chicago, Ill., 1983 You are five-years-old. You play with Strawberry Shortcake and My Little Ponies and have three Cabbage Patch Kids. You cry every night when you think no one is listening. Your...
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Délire de Kinshasa
(Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo DRC 29 March 2007) The earth seemed unearthly. We are accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there – there you could look at a...
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Everlasting Gobstoppers Aren’t Really Everlasting
My husband runs too, but to say that we are both runners is like saying that the man who gave us “Pants on the Ground” and Beethoven are both musicians. Already forgot “Pants on the Ground” and the man...
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My Mother, The Darwinist Shopper
In the catacombs of the Belz Factory Outlet Mall hung a pair of rayon Day-Glo orange shorts with a fat black elastic waistband, the missing piece to my patchwork fashion sense. My mother didn’t flinch...
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Arms Wide Open delivers message about motherhood, Mother Earth
The civil unrest of the sixties and seventies has been over for almost fifty years, but in Arms Wide Open: A Midwife’s Journey, Patricia Harman (Beacon Press) manages to remind my generation...
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All day it’s been hot; you can’t walk from the market to your room—just three blocks in total—without needing a shower at the end of it. Why isn’t anyone else dripping with sweat, you wonder as you...
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The First Time
Ryan’s efficiency apartment hangs off the side of a perfectly manicured duplex like an abscess. As I navigate the maze of dried brown hedge and partially lifted sidewalks, the cold winter air whips...
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The Rabbit Hole
“Tell me about your earliest memory,” says Rachel, co-founder of Manhattan’s Neuro-linguistic Programming Center, as we begin our first session of hypnotherapy. I tell her I have just two memories of...
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Vaseline
One of the most unfortunate things about life is that often, the Venn diagram showing the people we are attracted to and the people who are attracted to us simply resembles a circle waving desperately...
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