Hello, I’m calling to check on patient 19-3724. I brought him in yesterday and just wanted an update on how he was doing… I hadn’t stopped thinking about this sweet bird since I met him and dropped him at the …
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Susan McMartin
Plans. We make them. We have lists, calendars, agendas, schedules. Plans. And for me, Sunday was chalk full of them. After coffee and CBS Sunday Morning where I get my dose of tears and inspiration from at least one story, …
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I dropped the ball. There was a time writing my weekly column was as routine in my life as making the bed, brushing my teeth, breathing. There was a time this column was the only creative outlet I had. The …
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Seventeen years old. My daughter. My girl. My peanut, bunny rabbit, boo boo nut, love bug, bunsy, baby girl. She sings, she writes, she laughs, she dances, she thinks, she cries, she reads, she dreams, she worries, she wishes, she …
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That’s right. I am. I am so angry at the state of the world that I want to scream. I want to SCREAM! Out the windows, “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!!!” Aren’t you? …
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(this column originally posted Thanksgiving 2010) From the time I was a little girl I deemed Thanksgiving as my all-time favorite holiday. When I was really little it was because of the love. When I was a little older it …
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I was ordering food in last night for my daughter and me and as I scrolled through all the options of restaurants to choose from I thought, if only people every day could think of America like this. An enormous …
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Dear America, What’s going on? Why have you changed so much? It seems only a few years ago you were so loving. So full of hope, change, tolerance. But now… well, you’re angry. Dark. Brooding. It’s like you look for …
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… that I don’t miss you, dad. Miss you, miss you, miss you. What I would give for more time to talk, hold hands, laugh, sing. Thank God I have your voice and face in so many places. Often times, …
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