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writing to survive
unknotting the past and remaking the present one story at a timeInformation
| Url: | http://writingtosurvive.com |
| Author(s): | Jennifer Casey Trinkle |
| Language: | English |
| Tags: | memoir, writing, forgiveness |
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| Ratings |  (19 Ratings) |
| Popularity: | 44 Followers |
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And five days later cold
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It started with Maggie May's post on how one could possibly cope with losing a child. Or maybe it started before then, in my first grief at nine over the death of my grandmother, the grief that mor...more |
2009-11-05
Shoot him 'fore he run now
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J. had a freezer full of goose breasts riddled with shot. His family owned property on Broad Creek with a duck blind right against the water, where the menfolk, clad in camouflage, would sit on bri...more |
2009-10-30
Gorilla story
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The house teeters above you in a nimbus of red light. A pillar of cracked, uneven steps capped by burning jack-o-lanterns ends at the front door, where cackles and howls animate the night air. &ldq...more |
2009-10-28
Living proof at my fingertips
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It was one of those conversations that I'm tired of having, but I couldn't seem to stop myself.Mr. Trinkle and I were standing against the wall at the Fox Theater in Oakland, this over-the-top rest...more |
2009-10-24
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The low spark of a high-heeled boy
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Here was the scene: my four-year-old son wearing a pair of old high heels, a canary-yellow birthday party hat on his head, grasping a sword in either hand. It was another one of his many guises, a...more |
2009-10-21
Faking it*
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Surely there are hidden meanings everywhere, waiting to be uncovered. This was my hypothesis when I started my latest self-improvement project “Barbara’s Weekly Epiphany.” All I h...more |
2009-10-17
Prognostication
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In my dreams, the dead are silent. I’ve never had a good conversation with a single one of them, just offer my apologies, bake the bread, pour the coffee. What is the guilt about? The dead no...more |
2009-10-12
Lordy, lordy
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Guess how old I am today? Just add one to this number.I'm fine with it. Really. Image: Me in 1970 at Hollywood Beach. |
2009-10-10
Foundation
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The story was that he and Willard were drunk when they poured the foundation. It was a hot day, unusual for May, and the sky was cloud-veiled, the sun nothing but a glowing round cloaked in grey. T...more |
2009-10-03
The bitter scent of coming winter
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Back when I was dating my opposite, the racist homophobic conservative hunter J., I was a regular reader of Gourmet magazine. I would prepare special meals for J., smoked salmon ravioli, pissalidi&...more |
2009-09-28
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