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Month: May 2020

Watching the Neighbors

May 12, 2020 ~ Cathy Standiford ~ 3 Comments

My neighbor carefully paints the edge of her car’s trunk with white out because the too-small-to-notice scratch interrupts her well-manicured desire for perfection Another neighbor tosses water balloons across the spring lawn to her daughter because the beaches are closed and they yearn to feel the surprise of water splashing on skin My elderly neighbor … Continue reading Watching the Neighbors

Reading this Month

  • The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
  • Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir of the Power of Friendships by Nina Totenberg
  • Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools by Tyler Staton

Up Next in the Stack:

  • Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
  • Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

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  • Letters from an American by Heather Cox Richardson
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