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Heavy Metal Healing
Heavy metal was not my thing as a kid. With its distorted beats and aggressive vocals, it was discouraged by my parents (and every other adult with authority over me). Although plenty of my friends and classmates liked it and wore those black concert t-shirts to school, I preferred bands like Air Supply, The Beach Boys, and Journey. As my [...]
The Tricycle
The fog was pillowy and the air chilly when I dropped my son off at school. His Adaptive P.E. teacher must have seen my car pull up to the red curb and was heading toward me as I lifted the backpack, which sported an Angry Bird keychain with Zach’s name on it, over my shoulder. Zach’s class was on the [...]
Finding Aida
This would be a great neighborhood for bike riding, I speculated as the clonking windshield wipers ticked like a metronome on the glass. The car, at a 12 mile per hour crawl, took us around and through tree-lined streets where serene parks seemed to pop up at every bend. Zach had a day off from school, and I decided we [...]
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