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Tony Gloeggler: A Mother, A Disabled Son And Residential Placement

I’m getting to know our recently hired, part-time, two half days  a week nurse over morning coffee.  She’s thinking about trying to find  a group home for her son. I … Continue reading

April 4, 2023 · 15 Comments

John Okrent: This Costly Season

I picture Whitman,
wending his way through wounded Union
soldiers—his democratic nostrils, the smell of dead
or dying flesh. And in all the dooryards, the smell of lilacs.

May 1, 2022 · 1 Comment

Patricia Jabbeh Wesley: News

our people who do the hard work
of America,
dying as caregivers

February 16, 2022 · 1 Comment

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