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Spark by Roger Barbee

December 18, 2020 admin Leave a comment

Because of some poor life choices I had made before the fall of 2005, I was working through the emotional pain my choices had left me. I was talking with a counselor once a week, and I had a cadre …

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Peaches by Roger Barbee

August 18, 2020 admin 1 Comment

The cardboard box is marked “Southern Peaches” and made to hold ten ripening peaches.  Now empty of  its delicious fruit, it sits on the floor below a side table holding whichever of our five cats gets in it to sleep, …

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Pines by Roger Barbee

June 22, 2020 admin Leave a comment

Had Robert Frost lived where I do on Lake Norman, would he have written a poem about pine trees and not one about birches?  Pine trees are not as limber as the birches that Frost writes about, so no young …

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June to June by Roger Barbee

March 2, 2020 admin Leave a comment

In early November of 2019, my oldest child told me he had found out in a Google search that his biological mother had died in 2015. An adopted son, he had met his biological mother when he was eighteen—they sat …

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Memory Speaks each June 1 by Roger Barbee

October 7, 2019 admin Leave a comment

  Memory does not remember much of this day, forty-five years ago when a recent college graduate made his way from North Carolina to Jacksonville, Florida. But we know that his trip involved a young girl he had met the previous …

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Posted in: Nonfiction, Essay, Memoir Filed under: Roger Barbee

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