Voices
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Every accolade involves some hyperbole
It is Saturday morning and I’m sitting in our small, tastefully furnished living room in Port Royal. From where I’m sitting I can see…
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Scents of home will return in moments, memories
Some scents linger throughout a lifetime, attaching to moments and memories like barnacles to a dock. Papaw’s work truck smelled like coffee and dirt;…
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Buffalo shooting repeats a pattern we know too well
I hadn’t planned on writing about a mass shooting this week. My original plan was to talk about the finale of the Netflix crime…
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Should we do more? Are we doing too much?
It is Saturday and I’m in Port Royal. This morning I’m looking out at a yard completely carpeted with magnolia leaves. They began falling…
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1984 has been a long time coming
It’s been coming for a long time. There have been attempts from time to time, but mostly the country has been able to right…