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The Would You Rather? Game

July 20, 2013by champslikeus Leave a comment

Sewanee, TN – I play a game with the 12-year old whom I tutor called, Would you rather?  We ask each other things like: Would you rather discover that the […]

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Tennessee Summer - 2013

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

Japanese Beetles

July 2, 2013by champslikeus Leave a comment

Sewanee, TN – I take offense to insects mating in front of me in the garden.  When I agreed to dog-sit for my cousins for the summer, they wrote that […]

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Nature Writing, Tennessee Summer - 2013

The Durazno (Peach) Tree

June 10, 2012by champslikeus Leave a comment

Here’s what I will miss about South 6th Street. My neighbor, Benito, comes over to bring me cilantro seed. He sees me in the dirt with my barn boots on, […]

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