Tag Archive: Family & Relationships
Confessions From a Conversion Van
—for Raven We All Live In the Same House On the weekends I live in Cumberland, Maryland, in an old Victorian house divided into six apartments. The landlord tries to keep the place up—fresh paint, hedges trimmed—to conform to the…
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Don’t Come Crying Home to Me
IN THE MORNING, Dad feels better. Ida praises him for what he ate: a boiled egg, a piece of toast, a glass of orange juice. “Did you sleep, Dad?” I ask. “I slept OK.” “His color’s better this morning, isn’t…
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My Son and I Rough It On the Road
My son and I dropped out of mainstream society for a couple of years back in the 1970s. We started out living in a thatch-roofed, unelectrified cabin in Florida. The first winter we built a treehouse in the woods behind,…
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The Best Things in Life Are Free
Last Thanksgiving I hit a deer and banged up the front end of my car. To repair it properly would have cost several hundred dollars (the plastic grill itself was over $300), so I chose to leave my car a…
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Lessons From the High and Mighty
My daughter worked away from home for the first time this summer, teaching tennis at a private club in Grosse Pointe, Mich., one of the richest suburbs in the world. “It’s an offer too good to refuse,” I advised her….
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