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I don’t make New Year’s resolutions. I figure if I’m going to do anything, I’m going to do it, and the date on a calendar doesn’t help (or hinder).   If I look back over this past year, here’s what my resolutions must have been, because it’s what I actually did the most during the […]

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Here’s the way today’s piece went:   I had a great idea. A perfect quote. I was mulling it around for a few days, rolling it under my tongue like hard candy. The source was high brow enough (a 100+-year-old well-respected essay on cultural relativism and the inevitability that otherness is met with criticism and […]

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11 year old son: “What are you going to write about today?” Older than she likes to be mother: “I don’t know. What should I write about?” Son: “Oooh, cheesy gophers!”   This is what I get for asking an 11 year old for this week’s writing spark.

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The sixth grade Language Arts curriculum at my son’s school requires students to write a memoir. At age 11, there are only so many significant, story-worthy events these kids have experienced.

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“A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.” Graham Greene, The End of the Affair (1951)   Greene starts his story a year and a half after an affair has ended, when the primary remaining emotion tying the […]

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