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On Writing…
If you’re doing your best writing, you’re always on the cusp of embarrassing yourself.” –Arthur Miller I’ve been tasked to write my Author’s Mission Statement. It’s in the brainstorming and drafting stages at this point. I’ve stolen phrases from other writers I know. I’ve stuck fancy words in it and wrangled them around to make… Read more
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My School Family and Friends
It must be the year thirty-eight, thirty-nine, or it could be forty of my teaching career.. I felt good when I walked onto campus this year until I found out my friend, the head cook, wouldn’t, couldn’t be back to work. She has terminal cancer. She seemed fine at the pool this summer. She did… Read more
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A Journey With Frank Sinatra
The pile of vinyl records dropped one Frank Sinatra album onto the turntable. He crooned about Strangers in the Night, and I smiled in my sleep. The needle skipped and Snoopy and the Red Barron were fighting it out in the sky. The needle jumped to Bolero, it pranced around in my head, and a… Read more
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How to hide a genius
Shunning is done with silent delight. Read more
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Every storm runs out of rain
It wasn’t the right plant for the right place like she’d hoped. Read more
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The Simple Pleasure of Coffee
It was a monumental act of kindness. Read more
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La Bouquet
It looked like somebody made wedding bouquets and needed my blue and white bloomers.
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The Fatigue
Doesn’t my interpretation of the painting count? Isn’t it supposed to be a hanging Rorshact test?
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Still the Same
I ran away from home a couple of times. Once after college I went to Texas for no good reason. The last time with a man to England, half an hour from Stonehenge. We had to get married. I was pregnant. I won’t do that again. I came back. I am the same person I…
Devonne Brown 