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Mother's DayMy niece knows to reach for my hand when she wants to run through her backyard sprinkler in her Sunday best. I'm the aunt who didn't move...
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The Bird"Can you help us?" I don't know the student leaning into my office with this question. But I've just finished active shooter...
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Back in the Same Day"Back in the same day!" my dad proclaims as he eases the car down the narrow driveway of my childhood home. He says this upon returning...
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Cool MomNothing about this year has been normal. It's already the middle of May when the first spring-like weather arrives in Minnesota. The windows...
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Welcome to IowaSuffering from jetlag after the 24-hour trip from Singapore, I walked to a convenience store near us and purchased a couple of Red Bulls to keep me...
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Lydia WalkedLydia walked the day of my miscarriage. At sixteen-and-a-half months old, my daughter was committed to speed crawling across the drought-dirt lawn,...
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Reckless MemoryThat night I drove in the dark with you across the lawn, we were each leaving in our own way and had been drinking for tomorrow...
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The PaperI recently framed the first piece of paper where my anglicized Taiwanese name appears. I paid extra for the solid wood frame and non-reflective...
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Ways of SeeingAt eighty, my mother is a string of adjectives: slight, slow-moving, stooped. "It comes with the territory," she says and points to her...
