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Baltimore by the Mid-Morning Light
“I awoke before anyone else, in an unfamiliar house full of art and stuffed toys.” Today’s EssaySaturday USA is “Baltimore by the Mid-Morning Light” by Jesse Goodman.
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Spastic-Dog Woman
“My best shot of meeting anyone may be dog walking.” Today’s #EssaySaturday USA is “Spastic-Dog Woman” by Lisa K. Harris.
This One’s for Linda
The world had different rules for women in 1972 than today.
Three Bodies on a Beach
Three of them lying on a beach, the nearest one half engulfed in sand, the bow of a sunken troop carrier jutting out of the water nearby.
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Home is Where I’ve Arrived Too Late
London A – Z: A Memoir
The “A – Z” is a pocket-sized street atlas of the city of London.
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Mine
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Year Three
“We’ll just move far away from everyone, Mark declares, too far for people to visit.” Today’s EssaySaturday USA is “Year Three” by Edie Meade.
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#EssaySaturday USA 25 March: Sealight
“This place has fast become our sanctuary…” Today’s #EssaySaturday USA is “Sealight” by Chris Ray.
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On Not Knowing
“I moved here to embrace the not knowing. It doesn’t come easily.” Today’s #EssaySaturday USA is “On Not Knowing” by Katherine Plumhoff.
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Wherever You Go, There You Are
“Just like that, my world unravelled in seconds.” Today’s #EssaySaturday USA is “Wherever You Go, There You Are” by Teresa Shimogawa.
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Nowhere Lake
“At Nowhere Lake, all was abandoned as if in midsentence.” Today’s #EssaySaturday USA is “Nowhere Lake” by Anita Kestin.
Is anybody “active now”? Longing in the Era of Instant Messages
They are all ‘green’, colleagues and customers, they are ‘active now’ The same with my students yesterday, I sent the fourth reminder.
Is Rome Burning?
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The Carlton Arms
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On Being A Mother: 20 Observations
Motherhood began when the world began.
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Laughing at the Forbidden: A Review of Percival Everett’s “The Trees”
No author has been more overlooked than Percival Everett.
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Abortion Access Was Never Equal. Here’s How I Know
For young women today everything, and nothing, has changed.
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Roto-Shine
Instantly I fast-forward to a familiar concern: what will befall his
old Roto-Shine Electric Shoe Polisher when I am gone?