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Thirty Years Later On the Banks of the Mississippi

October 27, 2019 wordsncoffee

Here on the banks of the Mississippi, in Hannibal where I lived two decades ago, I wonder: How much time has really passed? Have I grown up enough? Too much? This river, these tracks, all the trees along the winding … Continue reading Thirty Years Later On the Banks of the Mississippi

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Talking About Racism

May 3, 2018 wordsncoffee

Seven hundred. That was the population of Perry, Missouri, the town I lived in from age 3 to 20. It had one blinking stoplight and one non-white family, a couple that didn’t stay long. Legend says that a century-old city … Continue reading Talking About Racism

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Thirty Years Later On the Banks of the Mississippi