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Pausacaco
Named for a Narragansett word meaning “abounding in bats,” Pausacaco (pronounced paw-sah-KAW-ko) is a wooden lodge with a wide, inviting porch overlooking a small lake. My grandfather’s two brothers and five other men built the lodge in 1906. In the … Continue reading
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O is for SpirOgraph
The gears are shaped like jagged O’s. We lost one of our Spirograph wheels, the third one from the corner, the best size. Spirograph engrossed me for hours at a time, and losing a wheel was a deep disappointment. I … Continue reading
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N is for Nosie Nellie
When I was eight or nine, I wrote and illustrated a full-color, stapled-bound book entitled Nosie Nellie. Nosie Nellie and her friend Naughty Nancy, drawn wearing skirts and large bows in their hair, are confident, opinionated girls—empowered, one might say. … Continue reading
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Lena and Mama and cigarettes and beer
L and M It’s hard to write during a pandemic. I am skipping days. The deaths are getting closer. A student’s grandmother. A scholar I met last fall at a conference and have known in an online forum for years. … Continue reading
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K is for Knoxes
Kerro and I grew up playing cards, board games, pick up sticks, barrel of monkeys, you name it. We are the two youngest siblings of four, and our older sisters weren’t that interested. We were intensely competitive, which sucked for … Continue reading
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I is for Isabella
(appropriate because today is sibling day, according to Facebook) Isabella had me in her thrall for the first six years of my life, maybe longer. I was honored when she allowed me in her presence. My vision of us as … Continue reading
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Backwards and Forwards
I haven’t written here in a while, and my writing has languished a bit without a regular writing group and because of life and because my book is out at contests and one publisher being reviewed, so I decided to … Continue reading
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Lizards and melancholy
There’s a lizard loose in my house. His name is Rufus. He’s Liza’s lizard, Liza who is about to go off to college on Wednesday. We got Rufus two years ago after she wore me down and convinced me that … Continue reading
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In a canoe
In a canoe at night, we crane at the stars till our necks won’t let us. Lena sterns the canoe her J-stroke confident. I rest my paddle. “You can help,” she says. A hint of irritation. I dip … Continue reading
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A Little Bird
Leontyne Price is amazing. Sally feels herself rising out of her seat on the balcony at the Met, her heart lifting, pumping strangely in counterpoint to the sublime crescendo of Price’s song. Art is physical, Sally thinks, and yet she … Continue reading
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