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It was my ex’s idea that we join a gym. It’s not my fault that I lost all the weight and really got into the whole ...
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No matter what I did, I never seemed to be able to escape my fate. As soon as I finished breakfast I’d hear, ...
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Her apartment complex sits just beyond the edge of the river of lights. Just beyond the incessant procession of ...
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All of this happened because she looked at him and he noticed. Normally it was so noisy and busy on the factory ...
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This one popped up in my podcast feed last weekend. Apologies for a second Terry Gross/Fresh Air story in less ...
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Friendships seemed simpler in the past. In the third grade I noticed this blonde kid on the bus ride home who was ...
I think I just wrote on this subject a couple weeks ago (Click HERE for previous article). The Jesus ...
I don’t know about you, but I could use a musical break with a couple kid-led bands, and old school flash mob and ...
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They do so much with so little. A little girl, her shoes in one hand and purple plastic bowling pin in the other, ...
While the idea of “race” can be understood as a human invention, the need to be able to identify individuals and ...
They nailed it. Having spent my last three years teaching Middle School and a total of six years teaching Middle ...
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He couldn’t remember the last time he found himself taking a leisurely evening stroll on Ocean Front in Newport. ...
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