Monthly Archives: October 2014

Essay. Tick Tock Hip.

Sometimes you should beware good days. Something will go wrong. Indeed, something is already going wrong. For Joseph’s 11th birthday, we went to the restaurant where the staff didn’t know our names but all knew Joseph’s. (My son is sunny, … Continue reading

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Essay. The Words that Echo.

Sometime around 11 pm March 18, 1995, I was bleeding out on the OR table after an emergency delivery of Joseph and was less than a minute away from the obstetrician removing my uterus in a last attempt to clamp … Continue reading

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Essay. The Rocky Hill.

For fans of my dog breed, bearded collies, North America has shrunk this week to Gettysburg for the U.S. national specialty. I grew up near there and visited with my father, a military historian. The ghosts of our civil war, … Continue reading

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