Sober
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Dear Universe:
Previously I didn’t subscribe to faith. My mother is atheist and judges those who believe in God. Coming of age in the 50s in rural Minnesota, she attended parochial school and with it, an hour of excruciatingly boring mass in Latin each day from kindergarten through college. Worse than Church was the corporeal punishment doled Continue reading
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Toothless in Rwanda
Thick soupy rainforest fog surrounds me as I step outside my cozy room at the rustic aging tourist lodge overlooking the Virunga mountains of Rwanda. The dawn is wet and chilly. Eight volcanoes separate us from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, the unstable earth an apt reference for the smoldering conflict ever Continue reading
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Sober Graduation
Drenched in sweat I round the back corner of the track, jogging at a nice clip for someone not accustomed to running more than 20 minutes consecutively. Escondido, California is scorching hot in late May; it’s a dry heat, an arid 90 degrees. The sun beats down on my pale freckled skin which is now Continue reading
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A satellite industry vice president by day and amateur astrologer by night, I enjoy writing creatively about my life.
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