Tag Archives: Family

Things I Will Miss

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Christine Organ

“I can’t.  I can’t go on.  It goes so fast.  We don’t have time to look at one another.  I didn’t realize.  So all that was going on and we never noticed…Good-bye; good-bye, world; good-bye, Grovers Corners. . . Mama … Continue reading →

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Shared Earphones

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Christine Organ

They sat in the back of the law school library, in the chairs closest to the expansive windows looking out over Bascom Hill and its steep grassy incline that was now peppered with crimson, ginger, and flaxen-colored fallen leaves. They … Continue reading →

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Get Out Your Binoculars

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Christine Organ

“Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others.  Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb … Continue reading →

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Have They Ever Known…?

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Christine Organ

I recently read that the city council of Naperville, a western suburb of Chicago, had approved the development of Naperville Family Building Center, a fertility clinic run by Dr. Randy Morris that will provide in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and other fertility … Continue reading →

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The Magic Number 33

Posted on April 6, 2012 by Christine Organ

When was that point in your life when you felt the happiest, the most fulfilled, the most comfortable? Have you gotten there yet?  Are you there now? Are you still waiting?  Or do you wish you could go back in … Continue reading →

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Time Warp

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Christine Organ

Have you ever wondered what would happen if there were a time warp and two versions of yourself were able to meet?  Perhaps a younger version of yourself could meet the current you?  Or the current you could meet an … Continue reading →

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