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Real Life – Time Warp
I have been listening to a podcast called “Dolly Parton’s America.”
Although I enjoy country music when I am exposed to it, I have been...
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Real Life – A liberal education
When I set off to college, my father inquired about the direction of study I would pursue. I declared an English major, to which...
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Real Life – Finding the path
I have opined, wryly, that all roads lead to Naperville, but disaster and destruction are not what we usually are known for.
Living in the...
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Real Life – Better than Zoom
It hadn’t been seventeen years since I ventured to an unknown city, but emerging from tight pandemic protocols felt significant in the way that...
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Real Life – Connected
The irony of reading a book called Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport is not lost on me.
Starved for social contact due to pandemic restrictions,...
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Real Life – Small joys
The Spathifyllum in our south window thrived for years when Sophie the Wonder Dog ruled the roost, and Clyde the cat made himself scarce...
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Real Life – For the Record
When I was a child, my parents drove our family of five to Cape Cod for a vacation.
They were likely hopeful that we would...
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Real Life – Comfort food
The holiday glitz and greenery came down early this year. Their cheery efforts expended, they seemed, quite suddenly, out of place.
All I wanted to...
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Real Life – Hotwheels
When the last of our children bought a first car at age 33, it became clear how much times have changed since when we...
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Real Life – Inward Bound
Soon after arriving in Florida this March for an experimental month in the sun, I began writing a pandemic journal.
Many months into our altered...
