HOLLYE DEXTER
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Monday, February 10, 2020
LILY PAD MOMENTS
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Anyone who has only come to know me in the past few years wouldn’t know that I used to write a blog that was uplifting and hopeful. When th...
Friday, May 3, 2019
My Encounter with the RedHats
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This Sunday, I was shopping for curtains in Home Goods, when a woman and her teenaged son breezed past me in crisp, bright red MAGA hat...
Thursday, January 31, 2019
The Smartest Kid in Class
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It’s always a perfectly ordinary day when fate delivers its most crushing blows, and that’s the way it was that sunny, January morn...
Friday, September 21, 2018
#MeToo: A Letter to my Children
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This is how old I was, the first time I was assaulted. To my children, I am sharing something with you that is painful and personal...
Friday, July 27, 2018
You Listened
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How many times had you crept into their rooms at night and pressed your face against them to hear the soft hiss of baby breathing, to fe...
The Sound
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The sound of motorcycles revving in the driveway meant that Uncle Dan was home, and with him came the entourage. One by one they pulled...
Thursday, April 12, 2018
Why I Still Have Hope for America
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These days, I wake in the morning weary with sadness. The world, politics, fear for my country has worn me down. But then, this morning a...
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