Letter Home by Ellen Steinbaum

Letter Home by Ellen Steinbaum I love you forever my father’s letter tells her for forty-nine pages, from the troopship crossing the Atlantic before they’d ever heard of Anzio. He misses her, the letter says, counting out days of boredom, seasickness, and changing weather, poker games played for matches when cash and cigarettes ran out, […]

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The Cold by Wendell Berry

THE COLD by Wendell Berry How exactly good it is to know myself in the solitude of winter, my body containing its own warmth, divided from all by the cold; and to go separate and sure among the trees cleanly divided, thinking of you perfect too in your solitude, your life withdrawn into your own […]

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Good Bones by Maggie Smith

Good Bones BY MAGGIE SMITH Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative estimate, though I keep this […]

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