A suitable list of alternative resolutions written for a body in motion, a body flawed, a body cracked in places, a body that soars on the page but sometimes hesitates in the mirror, for the body with a heart that is sometimes tentative, and for the body that houses a passion too big to be [...]
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Several years back I said I do under the sweltering skies of an Indian summer. It was almost perfect except for the moment it came time to utter those life-altering words. An imaginary fur ball appeared in the back of my throat followed by a coughing fit. The organist made the lone journey across the [...]
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When time is less, and life is more… I am not one to lament, sing torch songs, or cry in my beer when I am standing in the middle of Grand Central Station of my own manic life. I am not that kind of girl. I hunker down—under the goose down duvet—and live off quintessential [...]
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The Night Florence Wailed I spent this past weekend as Nancy the Nurse. And no, I was not an extra in a low budget film. Nursing is not a persona I wear well, but one we woman have to don from time to time. Having to slip ungracefully into this costume brought back my broken [...]
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A journey As a child, I watched people. I watched and studied their personas; how during Monday through Fridays from 8-5 they had a certain look, a voice, a style, a color, and an agenda; and after work and on the weekends I watched how they reinvented. I watched how others never varied anything, not [...]
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