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"I bet anything she's pregnant," said Mark as we left a get together with friends in the years long before recovery. Having been through a pregnancy recently ourselves at that point, we knew what to look for: the change in eating habits, the hand unconsciously [...]
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Last week, I was sitting cross-legged on my plump little black cushion on the floor of the Zendo I visit regularly and listening to a talk about cleaning incense burners. And as I listened, the very deep and profound thought that came to me was, "I seriously [...]
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A big red C. There it was, heartbreakingly plastered on the front of the report I had worked for weeks on. I had painstakingly drawn a wombat on the special mottled pastel paper, neatly stenciled the title ("All About Wombats"), and enclosed it, along with [...]
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When I was a child, my mother used to drag me off to church every Sunday. Oh, how I hated it, and I told her so. "I hated going to church when I was little too," she told me, "But then, when I was older, [...]
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Many years ago, I had an argument with my ex-boyfriend about grammar.
"You know, between you and I..." he said.
"You and me," I corrected.
He refused to believe me. So, we bandied about words like "preposition," "subject," and "object" before consulting Strunk and White. In the [...]
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Mark and I took the kids to a local Easter egg hunt this weekend. All the children lined up, eagerly clutching baskets, their eyes wide with awe and anticipation. Hundreds of eggs winked brightly from the grass. The rules for the hunt were outlined.
As parents [...]
