All Posts Tagged Tag: ‘family’
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A Visit With Writers and My Thoughts from Last Night
Last night, I went to go see my Clarion classmate, Catherine Holm read from her collection, My Heart Is a Mountain and talk about yoga practices in writing. Karen Joy Fowler [1], one of our Clarion instructors, was also there, as well as Cat’s brother …
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New Pictures from an Old Trip
In 1996, my first husband (Richard Savino) and I went to Newgrange with my father on our wedding trip. Today, I got a CD with scans of the photos (some of which I’d taken), including some I’d never seen. One of those photos was of …
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Theft: One Palm Tree
My mother wanted one thing for her birthday: a palm tree. A very specific palm tree. She didn’t actually get it on her birthday, which fell on a Thursday, but we did get it to her shortly thereafter. A good thing, because mom was told …
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Cancer: Symptom to Cure in 19 days
My mother recently discovered she had cancer. It went like this: October 19, she called the Kaiser advice nurse. October 20, she had an appointment to see her Ob-Gyn. October 26 (her birthday, unfortunately), she gets the news she’s got endometrial cancer. Nov 1, she …
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Richard Savino, 1945 – 1996
Today is the tenth anniversary of my first husband’s death. Though I’ve been remarried more than half that time, there are certain days each year that don’t seem to get any easier. This is one of them. I woke up early, drank coffee, took vitamins, …
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