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Because the stranger knocking at our front door didn’t look like a Jehovah’s Witness or a candidate for political office, I opened the door…
Read MoreBecause the stranger knocking at our front door didn’t look like a Jehovah’s Witness or a candidate for political office, I opened the door…
Read MoreJordan’s One Direction posters covered the wall where Emily used to hang her princess canopy, but the sunset still glimmered through the windows facing…
Read MoreThe slap-crack of skateboards hitting cement punctuates the air. The town park vibrates with laughter, conversation, dog yelps, honking horns. Overhead, dark clouds roll,…
Read MoreA flavor can flood us with memories of a time and place, and we are slammed to that place in the short film, Home…
Read MoreWhen we return from our honeymoon, I learn immediately from my Korean elders at church that my chief duty as wife is to fatten…
Read MoreIt is a cool and damp morning on this day late in September, after a night of hard rain and blustery winds that flipped…
Read MoreSunday after church: we tumble through the front door of Grandpa and Grandma’s house, kick off our Sunday shoes in a pile in the…
Read MoreMatchsticks and cigarette stubs in black soil, doused and tramped Where the corn is growing Or will grow The rain is cold When we…
Read MoreBefore the sixth grade, my world was small. I lived in the same house and walked to our K-6 school, at the edge of…
Read MoreOn a fresh-washed April day 25 years ago, I sat in my car in the driveway before the brick country house that was to…
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