Tag: memoir
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ABCD, Part One
Writing Class Week One Preamble: I will write an ABCDerian piece in the first person that seems to focus on food, but the focus will really be on the narrator’s struggles with depression and OCD. A is for Arugula What is arugula, anyway? It’s a salad green, but is it one of the bland ones…
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The Sweetest of All Peas
This is a short piece I wrote about reading to my daughter. At night, it’s always Sweet Pea. During the day I call her “Sweetie”, or sometimes “Little Guppy” in the summer, because she swims a lot in the summer, but after story time, always Sweet Pea. “Good night, Sweet Pea. Have sweet dreams and…
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Grilled Cheese Meltdown
The following is a short piece I wrote on the subject of being in the hospital for a week. *********************************************************************** I don’t know how it’s possible to make a completely tasteless grilled cheese sandwich, but somehow, the hospital managed. There’s no sign of the grill, no unctuous cheese seeping out of the concoction—it’s somehow dry…
Karen L. Mead 