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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

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

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

Goodbye, my dear

May 18, 2021by SFine 4 Comments

Clint Miller, who was once my husband for 19 years, and my friend even longer, has died.

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Bird's Eye View, Essays, growing up midwestern

“There, you will make your stand”

March 26, 2021by SFine Leave a comment

Truth is stranger than fiction, they say, and they are right, at least sometimes. I know someone struck by lightning three times. Two of America’s Founding Fathers died on July […]

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

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