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Triple Scoop
Friday April 9, 2010
My best friend died suddenly almost two years ago. She’d lived across the country from me for almost ten years by then, and since our relationship mostly happened over the phone and email, it’s easy to sink into the feeling that we just haven’t spoken in a while. The phone will ring and I’ll catch myself hoping it’s her. Then I have to....
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Wings Not Made of Wax
Thursday April 8, 2010
A few years ago, the Writer’s Almanac featured as its daily poem Muriel Rukeyser’s “Waiting for Icarus.” I printed it out, pushpinned it to my bulletin board next to postcards, photographs, return-address stickers from charitable organizations to which I’ve never given money, and the service receipt for my new Sears Kenmore sewing machine. He said he would be back and....
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One Way Road
Wednesday April 7, 2010
Last week, my brother was left alone in a small, windowless room with a child rapist. This man would, the following day, become a child murderer, as his two-year-old victim succumbed to her injuries in the local hospital of our Tennessee hometown. When my brother learned of her death, he....
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Powers and Principalities, Part 2
Tuesday April 6, 2010
Washington, DC in early spring can be lovely: forsythia and daffodils in tiny front stoop gardens layered with the scent of reawakening rosemary. All-day meetings are dreary enough with endless reports and dull action items talked over in windowless rooms, but they’re torture to those who know what beauty beckons outside. It was a relief, then....
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Powers and Principalities, Part 1
Monday April 5, 2010
The Washington Metro’s Blue Line, northbound from Reagan National Airport, takes a looping approach to the District, past the Pentagon and Arlington National Cemetery. I was on my way to meetings near and at the U.S. Capitol, in the city named for the man who, as commanding general, knew better than most how only two institutions constituted....
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