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My middle school had a Valentine’s Day flower-gram fundraiser. For $1, you could buy a pink or red carnation and have it delivered to any kid in school. You could sign your name, or send them anonymously. Popular girls flounced down hallways carrying handfuls, giggling and squeeing “I have no idea who they’re all from!”  […]

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I’d forgotten how much I love driving. Often, I avoid going places at all. But sometimes? Being on the road when the sun hints the end of the day is near, the world feels like endless possibilities. These moments make me feel as if we can each go anywhere. Driving on a road becomes a […]

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Today is Thursday. Today is Thursday. I mention this because today is also a day that I thought was a Wednesday that feels like a Friday. For regular folks, I suppose a day when you think it’s Wednesday but feels like Friday would make it easier to understand that it really and truly is an […]

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Turns out, there are a lot of Really Good Words. There are words so powerful and complex that they become short poems when spoken out loud. Others words are light and lyrical. Choosing a word of the year provides you with endless options to grow, to be, to explore. I thought a lot about choosing […]

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I suppose it’s possible for somebody to change her viewpoint without leaving home or meeting new people, but it’d be difficult. Maybe if she reads thousands and thousands of essays and articles with a true desire to learn and become more, she’d be able to make it happen.  But whoah, it’d be hard.   Experiences and […]

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