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Help, I’m Drowning in Old Photos
An old boyfriend from college was next to my daughter’s fourth birthday party, my sister smiled in her wedding dress from 1994.
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A World of Unprecedented Kindness
Unprecedented is a word that is used often lately – unprecedented pandemic, unprecedented wildfires, unprecedented politics. But today I muse joyfully on unprecedented kindness.
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Rest Stop Caviar, Poodles Running Iditarod, Lobsters at a Dover Gas Station
In a world where everything seems so deadly serious, we desperately need a little levity, a little hope, a little lightness of spirit.
Rest Assured: Susan Dromey Heeter Muses On Slacks and Ice Trays
“Slacks” are still labeled for the pants’ section of the Salvation Army Thrift Store. Slacks.
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Sometimes You Need to Get Out of Dodge
Wear your bathing suit and pack your Superman towel and get out of Dodge, escape from a world of Covid and politics and move into a place where cities look small, where clouds are within reach, where the 17 year old girls in the backseat of the Cessna dance to Tik Tok and eat Pringles.
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‘I Was Mom at the Top of the Stairs’
Today I muse joyfully on sibling shorthand, on those phrases recognized by those who once shared a household, those brothers and sisters who need no explanation, who get it from the start.
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A Sink By the Side of the Road in Paris
Years ago I was driving in Paris….wait, what a fun sentence to write, let me say that again, “Years ago I was driving in Paris.”
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Don’t You Love It When The Magic Happens
My first cup of tea every day is magic. Made with Barry’s Black Irish Tea and topped with skim milk, every morning’s first sip is a miracle, magic.
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A Talk Show Interview With Me
Sometimes when I cannot sleep, I imagine I am on a talk show getting interviewed.
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Sister Tells Healing Story of Vietnam Veteran in ‘A Wartime PH.D’
In very large Irish Catholic families, the older brothers and sisters are often like the spices I have in my cabinet; I know cardamom and nutmeg are there but I don’t often think of them, rarely use them.