

by Suzanne Weerts
- Jan 26, 2018
Tom Girl
Every time I got up to bat, the coach would say, “Let it hit you!” so I could get on base before I struck out.
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by Suzanne Weerts
- Dec 10, 2017
Counting Blessings: A Letter to My Mother
I taught myself to count my blessings as I drifted off to sleep, the way you counted yours even when your challenges seemed insurmountable.
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by Suzanne Weerts
- Nov 30, 2017
Encyclopedia A's
The Encyclopedia salesmen all did something that forever changed the trajectory of my academic knowledge.
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by Suzanne Weerts
- Oct 19, 2017
Little Miss Innocent Sugar Me
I wish I’d been able to crawl out of my skin and be anywhere but in that conference room.
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by Suzanne Weerts
- Oct 19, 2017
Medicine Man
Amani, the medicine man’s home was part shack part tree house. He sat on a wooden rocking chair under a guava tree, clearly stoned.
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by Suzanne Weerts
- Sep 28, 2017
Bye Bye Broadway
Chita Rivera was a fiery Latina woman and I was a freckle faced fourteen year-old fantasist who had yet to sing a single one of my songs.
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by Suzanne Weerts
- Aug 28, 2017
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Bill says every time her hears Roberta Flack on the radio his eyes well with tears as he remembers the girl in green at the dinner party.
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by Suzanne Weerts
- Aug 3, 2017
T-Shirt
I can’t say that I fully appreciated the insanity of giving your daughter such a billboard to wear across her slowly developing chest.
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by Suzanne Weerts
- Jun 22, 2017
Cotton Baller
Please choose me. Please choose me. PLEASE CHOOSE ME! I frantically screamed over and over in my head.
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by Suzanne Weerts
- May 18, 2017
Complexity
I quickly became quite the connoisseur, easily identifying the nuanced notes of difference between Tickle Pink and Sun Peach Pink...
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