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A Letter to my Second Daughter

My dear Coraline Cairn, We're sitting at the kitchen table together. You're eating banana pieces. You pick a chunk up with your long fingers, squish it inside your chubby hand, and raise your fist in the air. I imagine you thinking, "Behold!…
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"Coraline looks like a real name…" -Neil Gaiman

"I hope you'll make mistakes. If you're making mistakes, it means you're out there doing something. And the mistakes in themselves can be useful. I once misspelled Caroline, in a letter, transposing the A and the O, and I thought, “Coraline looks…
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How To Become A Writer

  HOW TO BECOME A WRITER by Lorrie Moore First, try to be something, anything, else.  A movie star/astronaut.  A movie star missionary.  A movie star/kindergarten teacher.  President of the World.  Fail miserably.  It is best…
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Emilia

 While we try to teach our children all about life, Our children teach us what life is all about. ~Angela Schwindt step.
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On Meeting David James Duncan

journal entry:  04.25.06 tyler street coffee house, port townsend, washington 12:15pm i think, perhaps, treating yourself to lunch alone at a neighborhood coffee shop during the rush of midday is something everyone should do at least monthly.…
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The Cycle of Abuse

At some point in your life, you have probably seen this circle.  Maybe it was in a different format, in a flier or magazine, or maybe a commercial, but it's probably been flashed in front of your eyes once or twice.  I don't know what your…
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