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The Last Winter of Innocence By mid-morning, the glorious clear blue sky had vanished. Ominous gray clouds now…

Recuperative Wanderings When I had recovered sufficiently from that comprehensive trauma, visited upon me…

Superb Heads A graveyard beyond a window where I slept dark cold structures reaching for the sky once…

Me Like Cornflakes 3-year-old Albert was having breakfast with his dad one morning. Munching enjoyably he…

My Memory My memory begins with water in my nose. It is the earliest thing I can remember. Lake Champlain in…

Islam Peace Prison Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, while talking on Meet the Press about President…

Karen opened a store about the same time she started going out with Max

Mother's Gift Mother’s death hovered on the fringes of my reality. Only that morning we had dined downtown, the…

Toward the end of my academic studies I began to obediently panic about my future

Urban Gardening Ideas With the limited space in an urban garden, one must be creative as you don’t get the easy…