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The start of my journey to healing

How my journey to overcoming PTSD started.

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You ain’t from around here

The only steakhouse in this minuscule west Texas town does steak night on Saturdays. We get there at about 7. The door opens with a loud creak. Diners look up from their ribeye steaks and dinner rolls. Conversation fades. They gaze at us from under the brims of their hats. Even the deer mounted on… Continue reading You ain’t from around here

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The Itinerant Blade Grinder

The itinerant blade grinder, the keeper of a dying trade.

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Off the Interstate

Flash fiction

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Postcards then and now

Picture postcards have been replaced by social media. But they still have a role to play in family history.

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In my great-grandmother’s steps

Both my great grandmother and I left our family behind to start a new life as married women.