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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

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

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

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

Coup Coup Kachoo

January 11, 2021by SFine Leave a comment

Comedy is the most difficult subgenre of horror to pull off – but Americans pulled it off January 6th.

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Bird's Eye View, coronavirus, reflections

Are We Arsonists or Firefighters?

January 28, 2019by SFine 2 Comments

“Not a dollar more than legally required.” This was the answer that Mitt Romney gave to a journalist’s question about how much he paid in taxes. He said it with […]

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Bird's Eye View

Song of the crickets

August 12, 2018by SFine 2 Comments

There’s a girl I knew, in the strange way of the Internet.  Named for a flower, she is the daughter of a man I met on a defunct writing site…a […]

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Bird's Eye View, but still uncomfortable, Essays, love, not horror, reflections

Glass Half Full of Evil

November 13, 2017by SFine 2 Comments

Are you a glass half empty or glass half full person? What if it’s a jar of broken glass? Spread there, for you to step on?  This is a question […]

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