Tax Day. In January, Americans begin analyzing their financial situations to prepare for the April deadline. Some people, like my husband, navigate the complex tax code on their own. Others open their finances—and...
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Dec 15, 2011
by Anonymous
The Eyes
You see Mrs. Benevenudo’s beautiful eyes first—blue, smiling eyes pooled with tears.
“Hello, honey. How are you today?” Her gracious Texas accent and comforting demeanor pull me in...
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Dec 9, 2011
by Sam Van Eman
Roofing was, they joked, "second from the bottom on the job list...one up from shark bait." I didn’t know this at my interview after high school, but I learned it quickly. Roofing is unusually hard work....
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Nov 11, 2011
by llbarkat
The lithadora spangles and sparks blue. Along the homeowner’s driveway, a phalanx of golden bamboo bows and hushes. Some summers it crawls with tiny red mites and managing the escapees involves kneeling on cane stubs...
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Oct 7, 2011
Recently my 7-year old son and I attended a special presentation of Buck at our local theatre. Buck is an award-winning documentary based on the life of Dan “Buck” Brannaman, renowned horseman, equine clinic...
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Aug 27, 2011
by canvaschild
I paint them orange and yellow, acrylic-thick, and they bloom on canvas. Sunflowers for she who brought me lilacs in June, and it’s winter so I make the beauty I long to find, that I long to place in a mason jar....
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Mar 24, 2011
In one Midwestern city, a group of physicians considers whether or not they can maintain their practice. Auto plants have shut down, factory workers have lost their jobs, and healthcare benefits have long-since expired....
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Mar 18, 2011
by khakiface
I first recognized a particular wordsmithing challenge when I visited one of Nairobi’s slums three-plus years ago. As I sat before my laptop to write about the visit before the city’s unreliable electricity...
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Mar 1, 2011
by denadyer
“I’m already speechless, and it’s just started,” exclaimed Ayan Musa Said through an interpreter. Ayan had just opened a box of gifts for her baby, provided by Catholic students at a nearby...
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Feb 10, 2011
by PFaustin
The voice on the other end of the phone was sad, but resolute. Her beloved dog had “died a year ago.” It was buried in the back yard in a plastic tote box, “the kind with the snap-on lid,” she said...
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