This is not a story about home improvement...

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When your eyes are tired, the world can look tired, too. My eyes were tired on this day…

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Hello, come on in! All of these pieces are true…

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Sometimes things are not what you think. Sometimes I am surprised in the middle of an ordinary day, and I never know when it will happen…

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I’m writing about looking for trouble, about high hopes and low expectations and how they converge in the turning of a key.

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It may be a story about intimacy and the gifts that not being invincible bring…

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I’m writing about finding friendship in surprising places, about conversations I’d never expect to have anywhere, and about the North Bend Beer Runners.

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About surprise and newness and vaporizing ideas that I’ve held for so long they smell kind of musty…

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Lately I think my visions and plans aren’t adding up well.

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There’s a man and a woman sitting on the bumper of a car…

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… about springtime and dancing and pretty new clothes and about a trip to Goodwill.

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This is a story about moments missed and later seized…

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I’m thinking of buying tango shoes.

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Been working at Echo Glen lately, which sounds like a summer camp for rich kids but isn’t.

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I’m writing about Echo Glen,

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But in my car hang the flowered dress and the rest of what it takes to turn me into Mrs. Heck Tate of Maycomb, Alabama.

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I’m writing about when we give up and when we don’t, and about two small brown bottles in the snow...

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