Tag: fiction
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My First Near-Death Experience
Kids, you don’t forget your first near-death experience. I was in elementary school. Maybe first grade. It was Mother’s Day, and my older sister, who was eight years older, and I wanted to do something nice for our mommy. My memory is kind of foggy on what we decided, but there was fresh juice involved.…
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When Cooking Stopped and Love Showed Up
1/21/2026 Kids, there is a season for everything, including not cooking. That’s a shocker, huh? Child #1’s six-week premature birth hit mommy and daddy like a storm. Water breaks like the movies at 5 am (The midwives swore that there was a smaller chance of that happening). The on-call nurse said that we have to…
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Two Weeks In: Heaven, Hell, and a Very Small Baby
1/18/2026 Kids, when you guys grow up, you should buy your mom a horse (and then pay for its room and board… vet bills… supplements…). Anyways, it is two weeks in of having Child #1. I am exhausted, and your mommy is even more exhausted. Context: You were born 6 weeks early and at only…
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The Food That Made Me 