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Parenting Worry Then and Now

Posted on January 4, 2024 by

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I worried about a lot of things when my kids were little but I never worried about them getting shot at school. I worried they wouldn’t learn to read quick enough. I worried they might act nutty in class. I worried about them not… Continue Reading “Parenting Worry Then and Now”

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A Rat’s Tale

Posted on October 7, 2023 by

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I once bought a dumbo rat for my teenage sonbecause I felt bad for the difficult patch he’d endured, well, guiltyIt was a big rat, bigger than the ones I’ve seen in the yardbut with the same twitching and long hairless tail The rat,… Continue Reading “A Rat’s Tale”

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What happens here on Red's Wrap is all over the map. There is no single theme, no overarching gripe, no malady of my own or others that dominates. I write about what seems important or interesting at the moment and what aims me toward hope. I write stories, essays, poems - whatever fits the day and the mood. Nothing stays the same, here or anywhere. That's a good thing. Happiness. It's relative.

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