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Children are Not Commodities, Nor Are They a Lifestyle Choice
But since we live in capitalistic America, let’s go ahead and discuss this in that context.
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Momfluenced
And "The Constant Vacillation Between Despising Domestic Drudgery and Aspiring to Domestic Bliss" (51)
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I'd Like to Live Near You, My Friends
I recently finished the book I’ll Be There for You: The One About Friends; I can’t tell you how and why I came to read this book—I'm living in The…
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Melody Heide

November 2023

Where Do I Go From Here? Part 2
On Slowing Down, Waiting for the Muse, and Social Media Use in the Time of Atrocities
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October 2023

A Collage Essay: Bearing Witness
1.Thanks for reading A New American Dream! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. A long time ago I lived in the mountains of…
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Reflections on Week One of Poetry Sharing
I did it. I managed to post one poem a day, Monday through Friday for a full week. I guess I’m going to be taking weekends off since I didn’t post…
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Where Do I Go From Here?
Above my desk is a framed quote of one of Wendell Berry’s famous poems. It reads, “It may be when we no longer know what we have to do, we have come to…
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August 2023

June 2023

November 2022

Tension
Positive turns to the negative, negative to the positive
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July 2022

Suggested Reading
Or, I'm not hitting my once a week goal, ope!
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Homing; Burrowing; Dens; Caves; Hives; Nests; Hollows
Making Home in America
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