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Spatial Relations
Byline: Stacy Appel My widowed friend Olivia often talked about her son, a talented Portland musician ten years older than me. He made the trip back to see his mother more frequently than most married...
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Making Up For Lost Time
Byline: Marna Ashburn Krajeski I’m a recovering college snob.Not a garden-variety snob like, “Are you a college graduate?” but an obnoxious one, as in “Where did you go to college?” Was it a...
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Land Girls
Land Girls, a popular series from the BBC, follows four members of the Women's Land Army--women who worked on British farms during World War II for the war effort. Nancy (Summer Strallen), Joyce (Becci...
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Two Steps At A Time
Byline: Stacy Appel Six months after my mother died, I happened to fall in love. First with a movie and then a band and finally, an entire culture. There was a man, too, in the end, but he was only a...
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Love's Unfolding
Byline: Stephanie Hunt Promiscuous socks go tumbling around, playing footsie, always exiting the dryer with a different partner than the one they went in with. Shirts turn inside out, just to spite...
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Dr. Mary Says
Byline: Nikki Hardin Dr. Mary says I have issues about you that I need to work on,” my daughter Jennifer announces after we’ve been talking on the phone for a few minutes. Screw Dr. Mary and the couch...
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Beg, Borrow, Steal
Byline: Stacy Appel Right around the time I began to notice that my friend Heidi was a thief, the plants in my house began to wilt, and two pots of daisies on my deck withered and died. At first I...
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Any Thing But Blue
Byline: Jen Reeder I was lying on a beach, being “buried” in the sand by some of my nieces and nephews. They were all under the age of 10, still too young to do anything naughty, like give me sand...
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On The Page, On Stage
Byline: Lauren Hopkins Karcz I found my identity in a college library one summer morning. I had just turned seventeen, and was sweating it out at an honors program in south Georgia, making generous...
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