After prayer doesn’t change anything, Johanna’s mom tries therapists and a mental hospital in her quest to “fix” her daughters gender identity. While she was born a boy, Johanna is a young woman on the inside and nothing but living a lie can change that. ...
but in 1931 Coke hired him to do a series of Santa’s (inspired in large part by Clement Clark Moore’s 1822 poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas”) that over time have become some of the most popular images of the jolly old man. From 1931 to 1966, Sundblom created 40 Santa ...
In mid-September, my parents, son, and I left on our planned 2-week trip to U.K. I was designated driver, my father preferring to sit in the backseat with mom and enjoy the scenery, while my son played navigator (and side-seat driver) in the front passenger seat. And I began to...
I finished my obligations as an apprentice, turned in my long poem, and attended the end-of-year celebration with my fellow poets. (Look ma, no modifier!) But I would never again call myself a poet. I had a new appellation in mind: short story writer. ...
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When Dad returned to his townhouse from the hospital after his fall in July, we called Hospice. For a week he barely ate, barely knew us. We set up dual hospital beds so he and Mom could continue to share a bedroom like they had for just shy of 74 years. She would sit and hold ...
This is a movie that can make you laugh and cry. On the1(four) day of the lunar new year, my parents and I went to the cinema to watch《Hi, Mom》 Watching the movie, I have some ideas. Perhaps everyone2(hear) the old saying: “The tree wants to be quiet but the wind doesn’...
self.She graciously brought me tothe deceased patient in the hospital bed.She began telling stories about what a great mom her mother was – a matriarch of the family who never had conflicts with anyone.“In all her life, I only remember an issue she had with one person.She was a ...
One afternoon, I was practicing a new dance in my room, when Maggie walked ___. “What’s the matter, Maggie?” I stopped ___. “Denis, you are a great dancer! Can you help me?” “What is it?” I wondered. “There’ll be a dancing performance in my school, ___ the boys ...
As a poem or a prayer, can also make luminous any dark place on earth. Maybe we’re necessary to each other, and this vacant place has need of us both. Calling us back to why, how and whence such beauty and what the meaning. ...