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A Humble Gift
2023-12-05It is the last day of the school year and I stand empty-handed with no gift to give you.It isn't that I haven't tried to think of something th...
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A Lot of Bread
2023-12-05When I was first incarcerated in 1987, the hardest part of doing prison time was being away from my children. This is common with most of the women in...
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Let Us Be United
2023-12-05September 10, 2001, was our eighth wedding anniversary. My husband, Alan, was leaving the next day for a week back in California to try his last Clean...
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ONE
2023-12-05As the soot and dirt and ash rained down,We became one color.As we carried each other down the stairs of the burning buildingWe became one class.As we...
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The Heart of Paris
2023-12-05My friend Peggy and I had both been to Paris before, but always as chaperones for youth groups or part of adult groups, seeing all the usual tourist s...
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Baby Mall
2023-12-05My husband brought our three young children down the long hall of the maternity ward, pausing to let them wave in each doorway at the new mothers cudd...
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The All-Leather, NFL Regulation,
2023-12-05The year was 1964. The place was Chicago. A man I worked with had acquired a couple of all-leather, NFL regulation, 1963 Chicago Bears-inscribed footb...
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The year was 1964. The place was Chicago. A man I worked with had acquired a couple of all-leather, NFL regulation, 1963 Chicago Bears-inscribed footb...
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Nuns in the Country
2023-12-05Two nuns were driving down a country road when they ran out of gas. They walked to a farmhouse and a farmer gave them some gasoline; but the only cont...
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For the Record
2023-12-05Less than a year after my wife’s funeral I was confronted with the most terrible realities of being a widower with five children.Notes from scho...