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2025-07-01T14:42:33-04:00

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And What is a Family?

Last updated on: July 1, 2025 at 2:42 pm By Mary Pezzulo

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The calm after the storm is more difficult than the storm itself. When I’m running around trying to help a family in a terrible situation, I don’t have time to think about how terrible it is. After it’s over– when I’ve failed to rescue anyone, but I’ve done everything I can, and life goes on– that’s when I start to feel it fully. I am much healthier than I used to be. I’ve grown up a lot from when my... Read more

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2025-06-27T19:24:40-04:00

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And the Rain Will Wash it Away

Last updated on: June 27, 2025 at 7:24 pm By Mary Pezzulo

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(A caution to my more sensitive readers: this story involves an injured animal, and a gun.) The rain came back. The heat wave ended– not in fire, not in ice, but in steam. The temperature dropped from ninety-five with a heat index in the three digits, to the high eighties and rainy every few hours. The rain made the earth simmer like a pot of rice. In between rains, Adrienne and I went outside. I pulled weeds, and she played... Read more

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2025-06-24T23:37:15-04:00

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A Neighbor, on a Dark Night

Last updated on: June 24, 2025 at 11:37 pm By Mary Pezzulo

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This isn’t a good story; just a true one. A good story has a good ending. I’m not sure how this one ends, and I may never know. I haven’t seen the children I’ve referred to as the Artful Dodgers since last Friday. Friday, at ten in the morning, just as the catastrophic climate heat dome began to settle over the Ohio Valley, the five-year-old I call The Mandrake came up to the door by herself. She asked for... Read more

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2025-06-22T13:54:56-04:00

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Blogkeeping Notes for Summer 2025

Last updated on: June 22, 2025 at 1:54 pm By Mary Pezzulo

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Hi friends! This is not a real post, this is just my every-several-months blogkeeping notes, explaining what I’ve been up to and where to find me when you’re not reading Patheos. This spring, the Pezzulos had an uncanny Easter. We got to organize the world’s least organized Easter egg hunt. I saved a baby bird and found myself the adoptive mother of a traumatized cat. We planted the garden. With the new/old car I’ve been swimming and visiting historic sites. And... Read more

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2025-06-22T01:55:07-04:00

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A Time for Peace

Last updated on: June 22, 2025 at 1:55 am By Mary Pezzulo

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The rain finally stopped. We’ll be without it for several days now. The abnormally cold spring ended. The morning of the summer solstice dawned bright and steamy hot. The five-year-old girl I call The Mandrake came to the door before noon, wearing next to nothing, asking for a popsicle to cool down. Later, I drove the grandmother of the Baker Street Irregulars downtown to the Juneteenth festival, with her disabled girl in tow. The grandmother was fretting, because the... Read more

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2025-06-20T01:29:08-04:00

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The Fireflies and the Sylph

Last updated on: June 20, 2025 at 1:29 am By Mary Pezzulo

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There was a bit of a tempest last weekend. I’m known for my candor, when I speak about myself. But I am very careful to respect the privacy of the children in the neighborhood, and my own child. That’s why I give the children fanciful names, and I don’t describe their appearance very often. When they tell me their stories, and I write what they say, I change identifying details for safety’s sake. Trust me when I tell you,... Read more

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2025-06-18T09:54:30-04:00

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Walking the Mound, Between Bones and Floods

Last updated on: June 18, 2025 at 9:54 am By Mary Pezzulo

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Mountains Older than Bones On Wednesday, we went to Moundsville. “Going to Moundsville” is a slang term for going to jail around the Valley, because they have a historic state prison that’s now a museum. There is an electric chair name Old Sparky, and other things I never want to see, on display for fifteen dollars. But Moundsville also has an ancient Adena burial mound, the grave of at least three prehistoric humans, a much bigger mound than the... Read more

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2025-06-14T00:07:42-04:00

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Swimming, at the End of the World

Last updated on: June 14, 2025 at 12:07 am By Mary Pezzulo

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At the end of the world, I went swimming. It wasn’t that I didn’t care about what was going on around me. But I couldn’t think of anything I could do about any of it just that afternoon, so I turned off the computer and put my phone in my purse. I dropped Michael off at work, and Adrienne and I went to the beach, to go swimming. When you live in Northern Appalachia, “going to the beach” means... Read more

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2025-06-08T02:11:00-04:00

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Dear America: Do You Like What We’ve Become?

Last updated on: June 8, 2025 at 2:11 am By Mary Pezzulo

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I just want to talk about what America has become, these past few months. I have a friend who is, most definitely, an American. She was born here in the United States of America, to citizen parents. She is Caucasian and looks Caucasian, grew up in Michigan and has a Michigan accent. She has several children. They are natural born citizens, but they are Latin. They have dark brown eyes and black hair, and have been to Mexico and... Read more

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2025-06-05T01:56:29-04:00

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The Angel, The Garden, and the Sylph

Last updated on: June 5, 2025 at 1:56 am By Mary Pezzulo

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I came out in the morning, to find the garden a mess. The sandbox was unlidded– apparently, it had been unlidded all night. When the sandbox is left unlidded, Charlie the cat uses it for a litter box. This is especially irksome because she never uses her litter box for a litter box. She does her business in the bushes, unless the sandbox is open. Besides the sandbox being open, the bag of diatomaceous earth I keep to kill the... Read more

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