I have never seen such smiles, white smiles beaming out of dark faces, sparkling and reflecting off eyes, twinkling through round cheeks. Such joy, such exuberance, such laughter, such dancing. Until. Until they begin to tell their stories. Until they speak in tear-streaks down faces of the abandonment, the love-lost life of an orphan. UntilContinue reading “high winds and ugandan hopes”
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styrofoam lipton and married names
I’m still getting used to this new last name. It’s bulky, only a letter longer than maiden Ritschard, but so many more syllables. Can-na-ri-a-to. My signature is sloppy, spilling over the lines with the bulk of all these new vowels. “You’re just finishing writing that name by the time the test is done,” he jokes.Continue reading “styrofoam lipton and married names”
the Overlap 