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Aug 22

Aug 22 A Return to Haiku

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Haiku, Write

“The returns are many and never monetary.”

Mar 23

Mar 23 The Gifts of Caregiving

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Family, Caregiving

“…as sad and as painful as it is to lose someone, caring for them at the end of their life is a gift to give them and to have had the experience of giving.”

Nov 26

Nov 26 It's All Coming Back to Me

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Family, Tea With...

“…I knew I was missing important things about Dad’s last Thanksgiving. It seemed vital to me to remember, especially on this first major holiday without him.”

Nov 24

Nov 24 The First Thanksgiving 2022

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Family, Tea With...

“I’ve been trying to remember last Thanksgiving. I can’t. Not a bit of it. And I’m not sure why. I remember all the others.”

Nov 22

Nov 22 Thanksgiving: Reflections on 2022

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Family

Aug 1

Aug 1 Era Endings and New Beginnings

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“Let’s wait and see what happens, Dad.” Then I added, “You can’t go anywhere right now. I don’t have a plan B.”

Jul 21

Jul 21 Tuesday Review Day: "Chasing Alice"

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Six years later—after spending those years extensively researching and interviewing family members, friends, former students, anyone who could help a reader know Alice Davis, Stephanie L. Fowler, determined that her dear teacher, mentor, and friend—would be remembered for more than her worst day, published "Chasing Alice."

Jul 15

Jul 15 Tuesday Review Day: The Girl Who Dared to Defy

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Jane Little Botkin’s second book, The Girl Who Dared to Defy: Jane Street and the Rebel Maids of Denver, embodies the same impeccable research, character-driven narratives, and sense of time and place she provided to readers in “Frank Little and the IWW.”

Jun 11

Jun 11 Just Add Hot Water...

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Tea With..., Write

The other day Dad asked if we could have a cup of tea. I realized that even our 3:00 tea sessions had become irregular. “I guess now that you have the book, we won’t have tea?” he teased.

Jun 4

Jun 4 The Gamble

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May 24

May 24 That was Then, This is Now

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Family, Tea With...

I received my book cover proof and signed off on it. All done. Then I printed a copy of the spread and folded it as though wrapping it around my memoir's pages, so it looked like a book.

Mar 3

Mar 3 Prompts: Don't Give Up on February

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Prompts, Write

That week Mother Nature seemed to have tossed her testy toddler, February, out to let spring in early, but back it came.

Feb 25

Feb 25 Prompts: Lean Into the Fog

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Prompts, Write

I look for prompts. Then find seventeen syllables to describe what I see or what I’m feeling.

Feb 24

Feb 24 Spring is Coming

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Write

The impeachment managers did such a wonderful job. They presented the evidence. They were articulate. They were intelligent. They gave us words that will live in our hearts, minds, and history. They were humans like us. Not just talking heads in suits. Not ventriloquist dummies spouting political party rhetoric.

Feb 4

Feb 4 Intersecting Themes

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What does a book about the Pilgrims and the natives they confronted have to do with a memoir about a daughter and her father living together again in late life?