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A Thank You Note to Girlhood Summer
It is common for the months of June to August, summertime in steady heat and oak smelling evenings, wistful nights and grass pressing our feet — to be characterized in a certain way, depending on the year, the social landscape, the historical ramifications. Summer of 2020 was COVID, we were locked inside making sourdough, whipping…
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Motherless vs Motherlost
Analyzing the differences between what it means to not have a mother and to have a mother that is “lost.” In her memoir “Blood Orange Night,” Melissa Bond details lots of difficult things. Her experience being a mother, having a child with down syndrome, her sleepless, numbing nights, and her eventual addiction to benzodiazepines. It…