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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.

Barbara Kingsolver

Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
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Believe Grief Track
The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Community People
One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
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Fun Hopeful Positive
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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Fashion Past Salad
A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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Busybodies Hazards Thinking
Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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Feet Feminist Girl
There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Always Body Fenceline Stories
A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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Doe Dog Thinking
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Fallen Tree Trouble
Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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Empty House Lying
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
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Before Human Unnoticed World
There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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Home Moon Stars
The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman’s coal buttons.
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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.

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