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What Keeps Me Here
Two nights a week, I tutor students in the college’s writing center. Inevitably we have nights with no appointments, and the other tutors, also students, do their homework and monitor Texts from Last Night and Facebook. And we talk. We talk a lot about my pregnancy, probably too much, as they’ve come to refer to me as the human birth control pill. Two of them are philosophy majors and....
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God’s Time
There are many things I’d hoped to write about for this post: those Dominican nuns on Oprah last week; the moral ferocity of Little House on the Prairie; how I finally finished Middlemarch. But every time I sit down to write, the baby inside me starts kicking, and it becomes impossible for me to think of anything else. Yet I can’t imagine....
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The Company of the Saints
As I write this, two events are fast approaching: a major winter storm and the Saints-Colts Superbowl. I’m not sure which is making me more nervous. Snowstorms were par for the course when we lived in Pittsburgh and Northern Indiana, but in rural Virginia, even a few inches....
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Hurts So Good
I took a walk in the freezing rain tonight. I’d spent the entire day inside with my four year old. When Dave got home we were still in our pajamas. Well, I was in my pajamas, and she was in her pajama top and rain boots, and I was actively searching for the bottoms while yelling at her about....
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The Artist at Home
We live in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, on a pitted gravel road near a stable and a dilapidated dairy barn. We live in a cloud of red dust; it’s a losing battle keeping shoes and rugs and furniture clean. Sometimes I’m overcome by a fit of....
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Memoir by Lauren Winner, Poetry by James Harpur, Art by Guy Chase and Adrian Wiszniewski
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