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Finally, Romantic Justice For Little Women’s Jo

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Jo belonged with Laurie – we all know it. The Little Women ending that should have been.

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Bird's Eye View, Essays, love

In the middle of things

June 6, 2022by SFine Leave a comment

I’m from the midwest, she said in answer to the question everyone asked when she found herself seated at a table like this.   I’m so sorry, he laughed.  You’re not […]

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Bird's Eye View, Essays, growing up midwestern

My father’s house

April 1, 2022by SFine Leave a comment

Recently I had cause to spend a couple of nights in an old abandoned farmhouse, moving out decades worth of stored furniture. I was both relieved and disappointed that there […]

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Bird's Eye View, Essays, growing up midwestern, reflections

What we might have said, if we had known in time

March 5, 2022by SFine Leave a comment

I’m worried, I said to my sister, half a country away. I am too, she said. I remember a news item, little commented upon, a little more than a month […]

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Bird's Eye View, but still uncomfortable, Essays, The Daily Write

This unfinished turn around the sun

February 4, 2022by SFine Leave a comment

In California the winters are green and the summers are brown, the opposite of where we come from. It took some getting used to, like you being gone has taken […]

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Essays, growing up midwestern, love

Shirt Tails of Christmas Past

December 27, 2021by SFine Leave a comment

One year my boyfriend told me he had to get his cousin a Christmas present and asked me to help him pick something out. I was truly so naive I […]

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Bird's Eye View, Essays, growing up midwestern, not horror, but still uncomfortable, reflections

A tale of two tweets

December 21, 2021by SFine Leave a comment

Scrolling through Twitter yesterday, two tweets stayed with me. One shows goth rocker Alice Cooper serving meals at a homeless shelter, but it wasn’t his rock and rollishness that stood […]

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Bird's Eye View, Essays, not horror

If there is a heaven

September 4, 2021by SFine Leave a comment

If there is a heaven, it’s searching through a crowd for someone you have been separated from, someone you can’t wait to see.

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Bird's Eye View, Essays, growing up midwestern, love

Coming up close

August 30, 2021by SFine Leave a comment

…and he just got into his car and drove away

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Essays, love, reflections

A letter to the universe

August 23, 2021by SFine Leave a comment

We talk about reaching solid ground and solid ground does not exist. The ground is faulted; necessarily so. Balance is an illusion.

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Bird's Eye View, Essays, love, reflections

Tiny Signs of Life

August 19, 2021by SFine Leave a comment

Little signs of life in a big landscape.

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Bird's Eye View, Essays, not horror

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