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As Acorns Fall

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The huge oak tree towering over our house has a wonderful sense of humor. When she feels we are insufficiently grateful for her shade, she waves her many slender arms and showers her multiple-lobed leaves down on us. I hear her wheezy laughter soughing in...

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The End of an Era

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My mother and I entered the little room at the bank, her safety deposit box in hand. It was time to catalogue the contents, which no one had looked at for several decades. I helped her open the box and then stood back. This is...

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The Reward of Writing Fiction

  |   Blog, On Writing

The stuff of everyday life makes us who we are, and it’s the job of the writer to identify those truths and make them accessible. We do that by finding the universal in the particular. We start out with the relationship between two people and...

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