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dear craig: an elephant’s tale

dear craig: an elephant’s tale

    Dear Craig: Tom and I were watching the news on TV the other night. A cemetery somewhere had been opening old graves and moving bones to a communal pit so they could resell the plots. A woman whose grandfather’s grassy space now held Someone Who Is Not Grandpa was furious, screaming and crying….

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just a song before i go

just a song before i go

      Well, I looked into the sky for my anthem And the words and the music came through But words and music will never touch the beauty that I’ve seen Looking into you, and that’s true Last verse of “Looking Into You” Music and lyrics by Jackson Browne, 1972

hey, i know! let’s build a fort!

hey, i know! let’s build a fort!

  I place the 14th item on the express checkstand conveyor and wait for the queue to move before pushing my cart any farther. My iPhone chirps, making me flinch and my skin go cold, but it’s just Stacie with a new time for yoga tomorrow, so I text back “7:30, see you then.” The…

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