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Category: Memories and Memoir

How to Carve a Pumpkin–On the Occasion that You Need a Few Pointers

Posted on October 24, 2016 by dearlilyjune

Dear Lily June, Once upon a time, in the 1800s, Scottish Highlanders who needed a distraction from cold winds creeping under… Read more How to Carve a Pumpkin–On the Occasion that You Need a Few Pointers

Excerpts From the Glossary of TeaMo–On the Occasion that It’s Pumba Season

Posted on October 18, 2016October 18, 2016 by dearlilyjune

Dear Lily June, You were born long after your father and I had laid a solid groundwork of inside jokes,… Read more Excerpts From the Glossary of TeaMo–On the Occasion that It’s Pumba Season

The Talk, Part 14 of 10,000–On the Occasion that You Ask About How I Met Your Father

Posted on October 15, 2016October 15, 2016 by dearlilyjune

Dear Lily June, Once upon a time, I fell in lust with my first. When we broke up, I fell… Read more The Talk, Part 14 of 10,000–On the Occasion that You Ask About How I Met Your Father

Picking Out Curtains–On the Occasion that the World is Not Such a Beautiful Place

Posted on October 13, 2016October 14, 2016 by dearlilyjune

Dear Lily June, Recently, your father and I celebrated our sixth year of marriage to each other. It was a… Read more Picking Out Curtains–On the Occasion that the World is Not Such a Beautiful Place

Golden Pesto–On the Occasion that You Get an Urge to Lick Your Walls

Posted on September 29, 2016 by dearlilyjune

Dear Lily June, Though I’ve still been working on whittling down the collection of boxes and boxes of paper in… Read more Golden Pesto–On the Occasion that You Get an Urge to Lick Your Walls

Hide and Seek–On the Occasion that You Need to Get Lost

Posted on September 13, 2016 by dearlilyjune

Dear Lily June, I have been lost to this blog for almost a month. I have been absent from letter-writing lately, maybe… Read more Hide and Seek–On the Occasion that You Need to Get Lost

A Walking Shadow–On the Occasion that You’d Rather Perambulate

Posted on August 24, 2016 by dearlilyjune

Dear Lily June, Your mother is walking again. On her walk today, during her hour-long lunch break at work, she… Read more A Walking Shadow–On the Occasion that You’d Rather Perambulate

The Influentials, Part 2: Adulthood Edition–On the Occasion that You Need a Read Later On

Posted on August 23, 2016October 14, 2016 by dearlilyjune

Dear Lily June, Oscar Wilde once famously quipped, “It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines… Read more The Influentials, Part 2: Adulthood Edition–On the Occasion that You Need a Read Later On

The Influentials, Part 1: Childhood Edition–On the Occasion that You Need a Read Early On

Posted on August 16, 2016August 16, 2016 by dearlilyjune

Dear Lily June, It was in graduate school, when assigned to write six-word autobiographies, that one of my peers came… Read more The Influentials, Part 1: Childhood Edition–On the Occasion that You Need a Read Early On

One Summer–On the Occasion that You See a Loved One Committed

Posted on August 3, 2016August 3, 2016 by dearlilyjune

Dear Lily June, It’s hard to know, with a story like this, where to begin. Do I begin by telling… Read more One Summer–On the Occasion that You See a Loved One Committed

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