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A Handshake Tutorial
In gratitude for my friend and mentor, Annie Glenn
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A Quick Thank You, Dear Readers
Hello to you and you and you. I am here, briefly, because so many readers have reached out after reading last Friday’s column. I wrote about those we…
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Love Won
In early 2004, a few weeks before Sherrod and I were married, I wrote a column about my search for the gay couples who were trying to undermine our…
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Walter! Come. Here.
Yesterday afternoon, Sherrod stood on the back deck and called for me to join him. It had just stopped raining and I assumed he wanted me to behold yet…
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May 2024

Wrestling With Patriotism
The internal struggle
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The Covid Kids Are Graduating
Here they come, lucky us
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Howdy From Rumbling, Tumbling Me
Hello from absent me. Two days after I filed my last essay, on April 10, I fell and injured my writing arm. One minute I was walking quickly in the rain…
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April 2024

First Comes Love....
A marital moment, on this 20th anniversary
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Wow
Blinkin' and thinkin' on a moonshadow
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March 2024

Smiles for Easter
Easter Sunday, 1966. My purse was shiny yellow vinyl. It held a quarter for the offering plate, and a special hankie that came with a story. My mother…
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Notes From the Candidate's Stylist
I used to wonder what it was like to be a woman in America in the 1950s. Then I married a member of Congress and found out. Sherrod and I were married…
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When in Doubt, Blame a Leprechaun
At 5:51 a.m. on this St. Patrick’s Day, I was stirred from my bed by two grandchildren shouting that I must come downstairs right away to see the chaos…
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