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Qinghong ShenDressing As If You've Given Up On LifeLast year, the locker rooms were under renovation at my gym. Each morning, I headed to a tiny, co-ed space where, for obvious reasons, no one was allowed…
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Years ago, I wanted my friend, Meredith, to take me with her on a camping trip to Lake George. I deliberately didn’t tell her that I knew nothing about…
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Look Before You Leap
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Sparks of Joy
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I look down at my paper that was once crisp and white, fresh from the printer, and now it is so covered with writing that I struggle to find space to…
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To Be Alone with Agnes: I didn’t want her to die. I stood on the other side of the curtain with my eyes squeezed shut and listening hard. I could hear the…
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A Violet Battle Flag: Somehow, I found myself genuinely, internally distressed about color choices I was debating between painting a room in the upstairs…
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I don’t mind turning fifty, really I don’t. I suppose after you lose your hair at thirty, aging just becomes an abstraction: I can’t really go gray after…
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I never wanted a dog. Growing up, my main interactions with dogs involved being chased by the junkyard variety. Years ago, my ten-year-old son, Ian, began…
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The postcard read, “One memory of Iran, that I present of my very perty (sic) Sara,” and was signed, “Bahman and Reza.” The card showed a picture of a…
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I’ve always told my children, “Don’t hitchhike and don’t pick up hitchhikers.” But, in truth, from my own experience, I’ve found that hitchhiking can lead…
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Economists speculate about the extent of recovery from this country’s great recession. Since 2008, many families have faced hard times, but…
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Top entries from the 13th Annual Celebration of Reflective and Creative Writing (2015):It’s never easy to deal with sickness and death, but nurses do it…
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Mother's Day provides a chance to think about our mothers and about those who came before them -- the often unsung heroes of countless families.…