Author: honeyrand
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Gratitude from Random Encounters
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Today I went to the grocery to buy some things for my book club. It’s my turn to host. At the checkout line, I noticed a publication. Big headline: Memory. For a while, I’ve been refining a story titled Mama Killed a Cuban. The story begins with a random memory…
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Cows in the Career
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I’ve been making notes for a collection of stories about weird things that happened in my career. Then, weirdly, I realized there have been a lot of cows in my career. In one instance a hotel was discharging excess rainfall onto a farm. The farm owner explained to me, “cows…
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I went to the local grocery store to pick up some manicotti shells. My turn to cook. Got to the pasta aisle and…there was only one brand of shells. In-ter-est-ing. Normally, we live in abundance. I expected my usual process, read the box, look at the sodium, compare costs. It…
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Kindness, Civility and Self
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Robert Levine died two weeks ago. You probably never heard of him. He was a social psychologist. I tore his obit out of the New York Times because I thought his work might be of interest to you. Today, the day after the U.S. House of Representatives condemned a U.S.…
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It’s all in the flexibility
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Last month, right after I committed to pay in advance for a year of unlimited yoga classes, the owner announced the studio was moving. Of course. The good news is that for a year I’d been saying what the studio really needed was a beer machine. The new location has…
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Deep Creek – Pam Houston Puts Her Heart on the Page
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Disclaimer: I. Love. Pam. Houston. Not in a bi-curious kind of way, but because I think we were separated at birth! I heard her read Chapter 3 of this book at a writing conference. I got Deep Creek but didn’t read it. THEN I read a bad review in the…
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It’s Just TV
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In an episode of For the People —a TV show—a man came to court, at the request of the prosecution to testify in case. As he was leaving, his son sitting in the hallway, he was arrested by ICE. His son, found by the Clerk of the District Court of…
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