Laundry Love

Sunday was laundry day. As a graduate student, I hated Sunday evenings, especially snowy, slushy, and cold evenings. My only concerns were having enough quarters, remembering to take detergent with me, readings for my classes so I could make use of the time, and fitting everything in a bag I could carry. For those of […]

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My Definition of Home

In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy says, “There’s no place like home,” and she travels from Oz back to Kansas only to learn that she never really left the farm in the first place. Highly esteemed people have expressed their thoughts about home, including Pliny The Elder (“Home is where the heart is”), Le Corbusier (“A house […]

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be | longing

Walking along the bluff, Through swaying trees, Catching glimpses of a fiery orb Rising from the lake. Walking into a spider’s web And a swarm of hovering flies, As the wind fondled The shimmering lake. And the lady in the moon, Gliding beside me. . A sailboat on the horizon, Sunflowers turned to the sun, […]

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