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To My Graduate(s)
To two of my children, both graduates in the last month
 • Shawn Smucker
Are You Willing to Live With That?
On Bombing
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On Our Oldest Moving Out
Watching, you might think I am simply
 • Shawn Smucker
Regarding Our Move to Italy
(Or, Because Even in Italy)
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Please Use AI
Be sure to use AI when making
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Just Another Day at the Bookshop
The sun is shining and it’s a market day so people fill the sidewalks of our little city, from the square and up Queen and by the time I get in the shop…
 • Shawn Smucker
In My Fiftieth Year
What is February if not gray, the snow melting and rain falling and lazy mornings with wisps of fog and memory?
 • Shawn Smucker
On Patriotism, Grief, and Our Hearts
How Hamnet shows us the way forward
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Scars, Growing Older, and Lighting Fires
In my 50th year I am realizing that some things are lost forever...and that's right and good.
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The Courage to Live It
The Courage to Live It
"If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it." John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
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