Category: WRITING
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SLEEP!
Kelly Salasin “Look at Kelly Ann’s eyes, aren’t they beautiful!” my father exclaimed after the nap I didn’t want to take. “Show your mommy. Show your grandfather,” he continued, working the whole nap thing on my tender psyche. I was confused and pleased and annoyed all at the same time, but 40 years later, I…
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First Sleepover~ “one” becomes “two”
My son isn’t sleeping under the same roof as me, and I feel a great dis-ease. My heart presses against my ribs searing my skin attempting the impossible– to reach him. And I wonder, How will I breathe when he is gone for good? (to college, to his own life, under another roof with his…
Kelly Salasin 