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Most of the people in my life are already aware that I am spectacularly bad at remembering special dates. If there is a big birthday or anniversary the…
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June 2022

Yes, this is exactly what you think it is
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May 2022

TW: domestic abuse Even if you are not regularly on social media it will have been difficult avoid hearing about the Depp/Heard defamation hearing…
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November 2021

"I just accepted that as a part of my life, accepted that forever I would always be a little in the place that I was not.." Spalding Gray
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July 2021

Some of my regulars, the couple with early dementia, have a crime fiction and thriller library of frankly mind-boggling size. It’s larger than some…
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This is another part where I have to admit I’m bad at telling a chronological story. So, the first time I went to Florida after Dad died, we got a…
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June 2021

I live in the hills behind a former company town. A two-lane county highway that bisects the village in the valley below us is lined with batt-and-board…
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May 2021

I arrived at the address given to me by the cleaning app, guided there by Google Maps which signs me in on arrival. There's a locked gate. I check the…
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So I was not entirely truthful when I said we threw out or burned everything from inside of Dad’s house, because there was one thing. It’s the box. Back…
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The clients are a young married couple, born about the time I graduated from college for the first time. On the up and up. The condo is decorated in…
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April 2021

The client lives in one of those new suburbs on the edge of a city south of us. Long straight roads named for ranches whose families, one assumes, sold…
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