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Continue reading →: Chaos at El Marvin
{I have not yet cracked the code on how to teach school and write at the same time. So here’s a story from the archives.} In March, 2024, we went on a girls trip. The trip included Shari, Shana, Judy, Juli, Rebekah, Liam, age 1, Nikki, 10 months, and myself. Six…
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Continue reading →: Get Well Soon
Many different types of people may darken a sick person’s door. I’ve yet to meet someone with the same personality for both a regular day and visiting a loved one in the hospital. Something lurks in the sterile, fluorescent air that intensifies certain character traits and dims others. Below are just…
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Continue reading →: The Martins
“Dave! Dave, get back here!” Anna Martin ordered from the door of the family’s home. “I told you, you can’t go to work with your father.” Dave sighed and turned around. “But it’s so much more fun than shopping with you.” The Martins’ life had changed a lot recently. Dave…
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Continue reading →: Cora’s Construction Career
Cora was recruited to help her father and brother on the construction crew. I present to you her fresh perspective on the building of a pole-barn. Five-thirty A.M., the alarm blares, jolting Cora out of dreamland. She groans and reaches over to shut off the obnoxious beeping. Her arm thumps…
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Continue reading →: Skiing Adventures
(Occasionally someone will tell me about an eventful day they’ve had and say, “You should have been there so you could write about it.” In this case it was my sisters, Shana and Bekah, telling me so I consented. It’s rather nice to be able to write about something without…
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Continue reading →: The Hike
Our family spent Christmas, 2023 in Phoenix had a fantastic time in general. In Phoenix there’s a mountain we always hike. It used to be called Squaw Peak but the city changed it because they realized the person that named it clearly held hate in their heart for squaws to name a hiking mountain…
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Continue reading →: Childhood Chaos
Growing up, we lived a few miles from Uncle Marion’s and we rarely spent the evening without them. We didn’t have a set tradition of how we spent every night together. Our hobbies changed regularly, usually coming to an abrupt end with broken windows, bones, or relationships. It would take…
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Continue reading →: A Life in Flight
The name’s Vexing- Vexing Fly. I hail from Gold Creek, MT and will continue to live out my days in this beautiful place. I was born on September 29, 2023 and have lived to the age of 10(days). In my childhood and youth I spent most of my time outdoors,…
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Continue reading →: Summer of the Chickens
One of my jobs as a child was taking care of the various animals that accumulated at our place. One species in particular stands out in my mind. A lady we’ll call Karen had somehow gotten ahold of Mom’s number. She would text an average of thrice a week with…
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Continue reading →: AAA- Amateur Agents Anonymous
Shana and I were visiting Chris and Judy in Iowa on Monday, August 19th . I needed to be at work by 1 p.m. Tuesday, so we left around 9 a.m. . Twenty minutes into the drive we stopped for a conversation with a state trooper and I made the decision to…
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