Tag: #roadtrip
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Tabula Rasa
The cabin in Elkins is surrounded by patches of forest and rests along the bank of Shaver’s Fork River. The Monongahela National Forest is a hop, skip, and a jump across the way. I love the names of places here. Everything has a history. Places that have been here for centuries, left as untouched as…
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Two Hands Meet
Just into West Virginia, a small hand dips and turns in the wind, moving in all directions, before regaining control. The little hand juts in and out again from the window of the brown and white station wagon, as if mustering up courage to try once more. Palm down, the little fingers close together, curling…
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Conversations At A Coffee Shop
“I don’t know whether the truth comes out of your mouth or not anymore. You still love me, even if you won’t say it.” “I don’t still love you, John.” “You’ve been saying that since we were 14 years old. And we’ve had, like, four relationships since then, Beth. So of course I’m not going…
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October Moon
The memory of a shed that was once someone’s home fills my head. The sound of glass breaking. You broke the window with a blanket wrapped around your hand. We slipped into the abandoned house. It stood in a little field that pylons had been built around. They looked like giants come to kidnap us.…
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Cops & Kegels
Whenever I hit the road I feel a giddy sense of freedom. I drive with the windows and the top of my trusty little convertible down and pump up the jams. I am, after all, a child of the 80’s and 90’s. State 1 on my route to Canada is Indiana. It’s as Midwestern as…
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To Do Lists When Making A Life-Altering Move
When one decides to actually do something one has talked about, or secretly wanted to do, one finds that one ought to create a To Do List. One cannot simply hop on a plane with all of one’s belongings in her old She-Ra sleepover bag from 1985 and fly from Chicago to Bangor, Maine. One…
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The Island
It was the summer of 1988 and I was about to start third grade when I first opened the book and began my romance with a tiny island in Canada. I devoured the book with my eyes, my imagination running wild, while my legs dangled off the side of my twin bed. I was there.…
In Wonderland: A Combination Of Fact & Fiction 