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The Things I Carry

Elizabeth Harwell

It's hard to live in this world. Let's tell stories and laugh about it. Laughing will make room for grace.

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Falling Water

My seventh grade science teacher was something of an idealist when she recruited me and my friend Bridget as the founding members of Calloway County Middle School’s traveling science team. This was a risky move by Mrs. McDaniel because I di...

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On Book Angels and Cooperating with Grace

For a full year now, I’ve been working in the library at my kids’ elementary school. Friday mornings are my favorite, because on Friday mornings each kindergarten class comes to me in twenty-minute bursts. And kindergartners are hilarious....

4 months ago
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Reflections from a Line-Cutter

A few days ago, at the Denver airport, I cut the line at security.

I found out I had cut the line because a young man carrying a guitar case looked me straight in the face and said, “Sneaky…” like he was including me in on a joke. His fri...

8 months ago
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To Enter That Rest

“This will be a flat, easy hike,” is a lie that my otherwise principled husband likes to tell with stunning confidence. It became something of a catchphrase during the summers we worked at a camp in Wyoming, where Andrew was in charge of pl...

a year ago
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A World Too Wonderful

On the day we went to the mangrove island, you asked me to get into the kayak and go with you to see a coral reef. We could leave the kids behind with your parents, you said—you already had the snorkeling gear in the boat. It was our last d...

a year ago
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    Essayist and children's book author. Happiest when my house is full of people and music is playing.

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