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I rolled my giant suitcase off the cruise ship into a Port of Miami corridor, toward the elevator lobby. A crowd of other cruisers congregated in front of the lone elevator that led downstairs to customs. The crowd fell into a long line, dragging their big bags and tucking their Border Patrol forms into their …
Question: What did the Everglades, Miami, the Bahamas and Key West have in common last week? ME! Like any financially irresponsible grad student, I followed my spring semester’s finals week with a week-long respite from reality. A tour via car and cruise ship of a bunch of places I hadn’t been. A much needed vacation. I am back and …
Three years old and already into books, I browsed a bookshelf in my preschool classroom. That’s when I saw it: The flip book. I flipped through it. I flipped through it again. Over and over, I watched the magic of the animation created by my flipping. That’s when I knew it: I wanted the book. …
I am not a runner. So it was weird when before 5 on a summer morning, I put on a pair of running shoes. For a month, I had been working out from 5:30 to 6:30 weekday mornings with a trainer named Frank and the others who had signed up for his boot camp. We …
On a quiet Thursday night a few springs ago, I curled up on the couch in the family room, under a sheet, in front of the TV. After my show ended, I shut it off and shut my eyes. I fell asleep. Before 5 a.m. on Friday, my brother — who then still lived at …