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We called it the good phone, the downstairs telephone mounted to the kitchen wall, to differentiate it from the only other telephone in our house:…
My friend says that if you lie on a frozen lake with your ear against the ice, you can hear it shifting way down below….
I am driving the school bus to a volleyball tournament forty minutes away at Little Wound School in Kyle, South Dakota. It’s only me and…
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You were a friendless child capturing moths in glass jars, telling them the names of kids at your school under your breath, your mother teaching…
You’re flying from Baltimore to Dallas, and you tell yourself twenty chips—that’s one serving, one-hundred-and-forty calories, not bad. So you begin with an emphatic inaugural…