<![CDATA[write one - Medium]]> https://medium.com/write-one?source=rss----c80eb5299733---4 https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/proxy/1*TGH72Nnw24QL3iV9IOm4VA.png write one - Medium https://medium.com/write-one?source=rss----c80eb5299733---4 Medium Thu, 12 Nov 2026 19:38:49 GMT <![CDATA[hockey and hope]]>

hockey and hope

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]]> https://medium.com/write-one/hockey-and-hope-9cd303ba8b10?source=rss----c80eb5299733---4 https://medium.com/p/9cd303ba8b10 Sun, 29 Sep 2019 11:34:41 GMT 2019-09-23T18:50:57.230Z <![CDATA[Some mornings it’s easy.]]>

I don’t have the answer to that question. Maybe it lies in my childhood, in things that happened. Maybe some of it is just my origin story…

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]]> https://medium.com/write-one/some-mornings-its-easy-d2872a1ad2f6?source=rss----c80eb5299733---4 https://medium.com/p/d2872a1ad2f6 Sun, 29 Sep 2019 11:34:09 GMT 2019-09-26T15:00:45.547Z <![CDATA[My first husband was addicted to gambling.]]>

My brother-in-law is dead. We found him sprawled on his bed in April of 2007, cold to the touch, his shoes and jacket on. We had been…

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]]> https://medium.com/write-one/my-first-husband-was-addicted-to-gambling-c0d92e2bde3b?source=rss----c80eb5299733---4 https://medium.com/p/c0d92e2bde3b Sun, 29 Sep 2019 11:33:38 GMT 2019-09-27T14:49:29.561Z <![CDATA[I’m 16 years old.]]>

Jacques spends the rest of the song trying to find a subtle way to put his arm around me. He fidgets and fusses and moves a little closer…

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]]> https://medium.com/write-one/im-16-years-old-2991bae35f03?source=rss----c80eb5299733---4 https://medium.com/p/2991bae35f03 Sun, 29 Sep 2019 11:32:56 GMT 2019-09-28T14:33:52.696Z <![CDATA[There’s a picture of us somewhere, unless I tore it up already.]]>

I was always sorry.

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]]> https://medium.com/write-one/theres-a-picture-of-us-somewhere-unless-i-tore-it-up-already-63977cafd36d?source=rss----c80eb5299733---4 https://medium.com/p/63977cafd36d Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:54:57 GMT 2019-09-22T12:43:03.036Z <![CDATA[You were always weird but I never had to hold you By the edges, like I do now]]>

Its the beginning of fall and the temperature has dipped below 70 for the first time. I’m sitting on my living room floor in our old house…

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]]> https://medium.com/write-one/you-were-always-weird-but-i-never-had-to-hold-you-by-the-edges-like-i-do-now-58d6b839c941?source=rss----c80eb5299733---4 https://medium.com/p/58d6b839c941 Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:53:16 GMT 2019-09-24T14:06:15.520Z <![CDATA[it’s 3am i must be crazy]]>

A list of things I think about at 3am:

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Just as Matthew could hear the tires of the pick up truck nearing the house, his mother shooed him into the shed and told him to watch…

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I am submerged. I am gasping for air, reaching, trying to propel myself up. This time it is water. Other times it is sand, dirt. I swim or…

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]]> https://medium.com/write-one/to-sleep-perchance-to-dream-6d4a84f0971e?source=rss----c80eb5299733---4 https://medium.com/p/6d4a84f0971e Thu, 19 Sep 2019 14:56:01 GMT 2019-09-19T14:48:09.450Z <![CDATA[like a hurricane]]>

It’s September 2019. Seven years removed from the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy.

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