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. Motherly Motives ---of the 5% of American women with 5 or more children The greater good is motherhood. Let...

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. In a Twenty-minute Tuk-tuk Ride That day, the river of our luck had dried. No taxis. Air-conditioned buses crammed...

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. Dragons Lost at Sea In salty seas green dragons fly the waves, With plastic scales—a man-made guard from rot....

. I No Longer See It on Mulberry Street I used to walk home from school each day, then report...

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. Notre Dame Re-Opens To touch this holiness we have no right, Nor did we earn the privilege to restore...

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. Meditation on Herbert’s “Church Monuments” "…Mark, here below, How tame these ashes are, how free from lust, That thou...

. After the Snow The snow fell through the night, night-long, The deepest snowfall of the year. By dawn it...

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. Meditation 1 “Grace has drawn nigh to mouths, once blasphemous, and has made them harps; sounding praise.” ---Homily on...

. Roofless Church The stone-hewn walls, No window sash. No pews, no halls. Burnt logs, damp ash. The roof, vanished....

. American Espionage and the Soviet Target I was assigned to Russia as an Army attaché— A legal spy who...

. "It Just So Happens" Dark creatures prowl the islands of the mind On silent paw, as panthers in the...

. When Poems Are Lyrics and Vice Versa by James A. Tweedie Lyrics are poems written to join with music...

. When Fervid Female Stoops to Folly after Goldsmith’s “When lovely woman stoops to folly” When fervid female stoops to...

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. Black Friday Before Christmas Many of the stories are real ones from the Internet. ‘Twas the month before Christmas...

. Fair Game on Thanksgiving Day Please tell me if you think I’ve crossed a line by unremittingly abusing you...

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. Book Reviewed: Uttering the Unutterable: Aristotle, Religion, and Literature by Louis Groarke, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023 by Margaret Coats...

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