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So This is How it Goes

August 13, 2017by champslikeus Leave a comment

She doesn’t remember me when I come to visit after she arrived home from the hospital. She calls me to fix her computer. Interestingly, I follow another woman into her […]

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Notes from a Part-Time Social Worker

These Days Will Come

June 19, 2014by champslikeus Leave a comment

It takes nine quarters to do a load of her laundry, the older woman whom I have helped every week for a year-and-a-half.  Today, I’m worried that I might have to […]

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The Price of Closeness

July 3, 2013by champslikeus Leave a comment

Sewanee, TN – I remembered what the ranger told me in Arkansas: “Everything here is poisonous.” I was trying to adapt to life in Tennessee but it seemed like everything […]

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Tennessee Summer - 2013

Tennessee Health Bars

June 28, 2013by champslikeus 3 Comments

Sewanee, TN – Rural Tennessee promised to hold stories and lemonade on the front porch, plus who could go wrong in a state with so many double letters? I had […]

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Tennessee Summer - 2013

Chapulines

April 18, 2012by champslikeus Leave a comment

This afternoon, I visit the neighbor kids’ house.  Vale, the sixth grader, comes out of the kitchen with a bowl. “You want some? Try these.”  In the bowl are about […]

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Notes from a Part-Time Social Worker

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