Tag: Finding Yourself
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Family, Rewritten
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Healing is strange. It’s not linear, and it’s not always loud. Sometimes, it shows up in the quietest moments. Like sitting by my mother’s bed, hearing her laugh with her sister even as her memory faded. Or watching old friends and long-lost cousins reappear with hugs and warmth at my…
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Come on Down, The Price is Right and a New Direction
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I was about to step on The Price is Right stage with Drew Carey, my daughter, the most handsome male model I had ever seen, and…God? It sounds like the beginning of a joke. But it was happening.
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Crossroads of New Orleans
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I feel for those who go to New Orleans and only experience Bourbon Street. It’s quintessential New Orleans, too, but it’s the New Orleans of excess, where gaudy, oversized cocktails are thrust into hands, and the music is drowned in the din, lost beneath the flashing neon. The magic is…