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How many disasters can you fit on the head of a pin?
by rosie
When my first husband and I separated, I took my nine month old daughter and moved back to Houston. At the time I still [...]
Handwriting On The Wall
by Suzy
Mainly what I remember about learning script was that there were letters I liked and letters I didn't like.
Alone on Mother’s Day
by Betsy Pfau
Mothers are dead. Children are far away, one overseas who celebrates mothers in March, so may not know when Mother’s [...]
An English Teacher
by Laurie Levy
To me becoming an English teacher was a punchline. And yet, that is just where my college path led me.
Baby Shoes
Baby Shoes I’m not the sentimental type, but when our son outgrew his first pair of baby shoes I decided to have them [...]
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