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Elastic Heart

Heather Valentine

Stories about what stretches, what stays.

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Welcome to Musings & Mistakes

This is the part of Elastic Heart where the smaller things land: half-formed thoughts, passing confessions, and the occasional micro epiphany.

Most pieces will have imperfect beats, and some might contradict what came before, but that’s t...

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My Friend, My Mother-in-Law

My cell phone rang. I was a frazzled new mom, but I picked it up when I saw the number.

“Hi, it’s Lin. How are you?”

As my cranky daughter fussed from her bedroom, I shared my week’s dilemma of sleep training with my mother-in-law.

“Is J...

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2024- A Gemini Lament

“Oh, she’s a Gemini,” I told my husband. “I should have known.”

“Known what?” He asked.

“That’s why I don’t get along with her.”

He stared at me blankly.

“May ones are okay, but June Geminis are crazy.”

He may have rolled his eyes.

“I...

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1997 - Mother's Day

My hands shook as I opened the box addressed to me in my mother’s handwriting. I had been putting it off for days since I needed to be in the right frame of mind for these distinctive care packages from home. Without the in person clues to...

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2003- Say Goodbye to Hollywood

I met him at work in my early thirties, managing a restaurant considered a Hollywood institution where industry egos met to indulge in power, nosh down deals, and drink up attention. My job was focused on catering to these very people for w...

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    Midwest raised on casseroles and contradictions, writing from the Pacific’s edge about what bends, mends, and holds.

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