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  • How I Wrote about My Mother within the Context of Her Own Skin (Part 2 of 2)

    May 7, 2009

    • Thank you Readers for visiting, and thank you Red Room Editors for shining a spotlight on part 1 of this blog . For part two, please continue:      Understanding was not my goal the second time I wrote about my mother. My aim at that time was relief from the horrendous experience of waking in the middle of the night to discover her struggling against the pull of a diabetic coma due to low ...
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  • "Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something."

    November 7, 2008

    • Last night I told my husband I was so hurt about something I simply didn't want to discuss it anymore. Somehow our roles had become reversed: he wanted to talk, talk, talk it out, and I didn't. This wasn't because I didn't have the verbiage to offer. In fact I felt like we'd discussed the subject much over the last year - at least. I was done. I didn't know what I was going to do, and I didn't ...
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