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Heather Sellers
Heather Sellers lives in Holland, Michigan, and teaches creative writing at Hope College. Her most recent book is a memoir about face blindness called You Don’t Look like Anyone I Know.
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
The Wizard In The Closet
To Jerry, everything was potentially interesting. When parents say, “Pay attention,” they mean, “Know in advance when danger will occur” — which, of course, is impossible. But Jerry showed me how to pay attention; how to look and then say what I had seen, precisely, accurately, truly. Jerry embodied attentiveness. His gift to his students was to pass on this process of attending to the world.
December 2007
Fiction
No One Said How It Would Be
My mother’s hair turned in two weeks from chestnut, as she called it, to shocking white. “I am shocking white,” she said that morning when I came into the kitchen, awakened by the smell of toast.
April 1996
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