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A slowly sipped coffee
I have a routine. I rise before the sun. I sit and sip my coffee slowly until it’s lukewarm while I tell time by listening to the traffic change on our street. A quiet time in a family of night owls. Gracie the cat stares at me until I set her breakfast down and then […]
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New anthology by Maine Writers
I am honored to have a new flash fiction piece included in an imperative press anthology to document the pandemic and raise money for the United way of Eastern Maine’s Covid-19 relief fund. My work was inspired by the incidental meetings of neighbors as we tried to break the isolation of social distancing. I hope […]
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Hoping publishing will alway make my heart sing!
I just had a new work accepted in an anthology. My heart skipped a beat when I found out. This is my second piece that will be published. I am a long way from being jaded or bored with people reading my work. I can barely contain my eagerness when I ask family, friends and […]
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Birth, balance and death
Everything is a young fresh green telling us that we can forget the icy winter. What’s above is below.
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Getting un-lost
The world is reminding me of my life in San Francisco in the 1990s. Along with that has come a longing for the creative life I once led. A time of writing, painting, and drawing. So I am sprinkling seeds for the future all over the place. I don’t know what will take root or […]
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Morning path
The paths are familiar. I remember bike rides and jumping in to rescue my son from a fall into two inches of rich chocolate brown mud. His front side perfectly clean and his back perfectly covered like he had been dipped in mud. I remember catching frogs in the ponds and our squeals. I remember […]
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Uncompromising
Please help me remember a time when we could work together. Once, our people valued compromise. Differences in opinion were not reasons to scream insults. There was power in restraint and a common code of decency. Please tell me that my hindsight is not just rosy nostalgia. Part rosy and part true. Our people have […]
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A confession
Bless me Father for I have sinned. It has been many seasons since my last confession. Father, I was drawn to the world of reality tv. At first, it seemed so modern and fresh. I laughed in shock as women with sculpted faces in expensive clothes screamed obscenities at each other and flipped tables. And […]
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Full Spectrum Thinking
On – off Right/wrong For me – against me Enemy — ally Good–evil Love –hate Binary thinking is essential in acute life and death circumstances where a split second second choice will determine your survival. But it is a detriment to complex and collaborative issues that may very well affect the lives of millions but […]
Teresa Berkowitz 