Family Stories
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Digesting Memories: Of Food and Family

“In the archipelago of habitual behavior, sometimes we island-hop, sometimes we get stranded.” Continue reading
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Impaled Digits
Originally posted on C.M. Rivers: Growing up, I had the privilege of enduring several ingrown toenail surgeries, which culminated in having a third of the nail removed on each of my big toes. Of course, by that time I was reading a magazine and whistling to myself while blood spurted across the room like… Continue reading
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Here’s Lookin’ At You, Kid
How striking, how strange, that I was to speak with you for the last time, in the middle of my own birthday party. I thought you were calling to wish me a happy birthday. How childish and small I felt, once I realized – as if I had been struck by lightning or a god-like Continue reading