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By The Beautiful Sea

Old Friends

Two World Wars and the Great Depression, the old Firesign Theater “Everything You Know Is Wrong,” a wet comb

Children Kissing

“Ma! Ma, Patty’s up the big tree again kissing Billy! Ma!” I kept looking at Patty’s smooth face across the branch from me in the tree, and hearing Tony shouting into the house.

Lost And Found

Finding then losing then finding again a pocketknife, losing yourself in a bookstore, losing your sex drive

Making Marriage Last

Put the marriage first, resist the marriage trap, marry the right person

Sunbeams

Few are born to do the great work of the world, but the work that all can do is to make a small home circle brighter and better.

George Eliot

My Biggest Mistake

Not listening to my heart; believing my mother when she said, “Play dumb. Boys don’t marry smart girls.”; not dancing with Nan Zuckerman at the Sixth Grade Prom

Somewhere Inside Me A Gray Barn Is Rising

My Happiest Moment

Turtles, the pearl of great cost, a blue dragonfly

For You

I did my job. I picked her up when her mother threw her away, I handed her over to the shrink when the time came. I did my job. I’m the stepmother, not abnormally wicked.