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For the Love of Dog
I don’t know how I got this way. Maybe I was born with it. Regardless of how I got here, there’s no turning back: being a dog person is a forever kind of love. Continue reading
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Small Potatoes
Can you imagine if Gaza awoke to pantries full of eggs and bread? Such a miracle would be a pittance to those whose children have already died of starvation. Too little, too late. Continue reading
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50 Ways to Show Love That Will Cost You Nothing and Everything
This piece is adapted from an assignment I was given in ninth grade health class, for which we were all tasked with coming up with “50 Ways to Show Love Without Having Sex”. I think it was a wonderful idea for a project, if not for the reasons they had in mind. Continue reading
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Remember Your Baptism
I was baptized at age twelve in the churning suds of Lake Michigan on an unseasonably cold, blustery September day. I was also baptized as an infant at a United Methodist Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Depending on who you ask, either one, both, or neither of these baptisms exercised the sacramental power to incorporate… Continue reading
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What to Do When You’re Wrong
Kitschy mugs and bumper stickers to the contrary, we’ve all done it: we’ve been wrong. Continue reading
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Welcome!
Midwest Meditations is a living collection of reflective nonfiction authored by Milwaukee-based writer Caitlin Martin. Continue reading
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