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Category Archives: growing up midwestern

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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

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

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

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

The death of the Easter bunny

April 12, 2020by SFine Leave a comment

I’ve heard the saying ‘Give me a child before age 5, I’ll give you a Catholic forever’ and it’s true Catholicism has a certain stickiness, something I’ve personally attributed to […]

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

Bluegrass and the Random Wonderful

October 8, 2019by SFine Leave a comment

I tend to avoid crowds successfully enough that I forget how being in one can so easily restore my optimism. One of the best things about San Francisco is Hardly […]

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

I’m not your tomboy or your tiny dancer either.

July 9, 2017by SFine Leave a comment

The first person to call me a tomboy was Cathy Lidisky. “Me and Sandy are tomboys, aren’t we?” she said, as if sure of my agreement. We were in sixth […]

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Bird's Eye View, Essays, feminism, growing up midwestern, not horror, reflections, the sporting life

Memphis

August 11, 2014by SFine 17 Comments

  As I entered the grocery store, wrapped in my thoughts, I heard a voice, shaky with age. “Can you help a brother out?” I had seen him as I […]

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

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