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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY My day starts with glitter. I rub some lip balm between my fingertips to soften it, then apply it to my temples and cheekbones. Looking in the mirror, I tilt my head sideways, then sprinkle…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY I woke up early today, when the fog was just beginning to burn off. A little after seven, I helped my daughter pack up her car and waved goodbye from the sidewalk as she drove…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Every year, I like to try to run a race on or close to my birthday. This year, my birthday falls on a Monday, so I picked the Ironman 70.3 Virginia’s Blue Ridge, which was…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY The MTR is crowded with faces we can see and faces we cannot. The air conditioners blast Arctic air as we head towards the department store, looking for the new swimsuit that my teenage daughter…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Hope A few days ago, I got together with a close friend with whom I often end up commiserating about the world’s injustices. We ate sticky cinnamon buns in the hot Texas heat as our…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY I was a first-year student at university in Baltimore. It was the end of the academic year and finals were about to start. We had a reading day or two where we could review and…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Dear Kathy, It’s just another day on Cleveland Avenue in Ithaca, New York. It’s Sunday, June 4. I wrote you a little while ago saying that nothing had changed on the block since you…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Morning Early June in West London can be the best of times. Blue skies, a fresh breeze, the neighbourhood trees sporting thick shocks of leaves. That rattling sound is another magpie, strutting over the flat…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY it is 1989. i am twelve, at home watching the dutch news. surprisingly, with my mum. she rarely watches the dutch news, but on this day in which nothing happened, thirty-four years ago, she watched…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY I’m a college student now, and June 4th falls during the summer vacation. It feels like just another day because I’ll continue to do what I planned this summer; it’s also more than just another…
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