Category: Essay
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Reflections on love
Be kind to yourself and those you love. Be your best self. Forgive yourself when you are not. Share your failures with those you love. Assume the best of the other person. Share yourself and your ideas; listen and encourage their ideas. When conversations have strong emotions and conflict, have the conversations when everyone is…
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Teenage Bus Riding
My best friend Liz rides the bus all over Portland with me. We like waiting for buses and entertaining ourselves and everyone else at the bus stop. Downtown stops provide the best crowds, but a random innocent in SE isn’t a bad audience, either. Riding the bus is also good. We continue to work to…
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Hiking With Grandad
This essay was written in the early 2000s and published on bHs. When I was very young, my Grandad was both fascinating and miraculous. I remember getting up with him before the sun rose, putting on layers of wool clothing, and falling back to sleep in his mossy Ford Valiant. I always woke as we…
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Hobbits
I used to think I wanted to be a pirate when I grew up, but now I’m quite sure I’d rather be a hobbit. On the surface, hobbits are rather fond of eating and sleeping, two of my favorite activities. Hobbits also create lovely, homey holes for themselves, and I have always dreams of nestling…