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My husband and I pick up trash along the shore, and in some magical-superstitious way, I believe removing plastic pays for my pleasure on our daily walks. Yesterday morning there was a seal resting onshore. She was alive but unwell, sick or injured. She would either live or die and nothing I could do would…
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The other day we saw five eagles all at once. Three were on the beach near the dead seal just up the beach, which has since then begun stinking. The seal. The other two eagles were in a snag about fifty yards back from the beach. I didn’t have my camera with me, so Gary…
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Mark Doty wrote: “Literature makes other people real to us. It invites us to notice differences but, even more so, points toward commonality.”
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To my second-born son: Thirty-six years ago, just now, I was in labor. My first pains were last night and Gary said, “Don’t think about it.” So I didn’t. I went to bed. I got up about now because I couldn’t ignore labor any longer. At the hospital, a nurse examined me. “Well,” she said,…
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One of the assignments I used to give my juniors was to memorize the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States. We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings…
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Today is a big day. Sand Castle Day happened in Cannon Beach and Rose Festival in Portland. It was also World Wide Knit in Public Day, so I took my knitting along with me to the Scandinavian Midsummer Festival in Oaks Park. We’d gone to the Scandinavian Festival closer to home, but this was our…
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I first wrote a review of Sherman Alexie’s memoir, You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me, in August of 2017 on Goodreads. I continue to be mystified by the glowing reviews of this memoir. It seemed to me that Alexie was busy blaming women for what men had done or for what he, himself has failed to…
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