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Love Lessons: A Marriage Manifesto
” . . . [T]here are three people in a marriage, there’s the woman, there’s the man, and there’s what I call the third person, the most important, the person who is composed of the man and woman together.” –Jose Saramago, … Continue reading
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Tagged "Dewy Adorable Days Gone By", "The Real Housewives of New Jersey", Cambridge, Donna Tartt, E. Lockhart's "We Were Liars", Exeter, George Bernard Shaw, Greg Brown's "Down at the Dream Cafe", John Hiatt's "Cry Love", John Stewart's "The Daily Show", Jose Saramago's "All the Names", loss, marriage, Memorial Church, motherhood, Phillips Church, Reverend Bob, Weekly Writing Challenge: Manifesto, widowhood
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Unwritten and Unfolding
I am not living the life I expected to live. Not nearly. From the time I was in kindergarten I expected to be a mother. From the age of about twelve I expected to be a trial lawyer. … Continue reading
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Tagged expectations, Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Lowland", marriage, Moth Mainstage
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Collecting the Past
In All the Names, the lead character worked as a sub-clerk in a mindless job; during his off hours he collected newspaper clippings about famous people. The author wrote: There are people like [him] everywhere, … Continue reading
