My Trip Down the Birth Canal

BIRTH I don’t remember birth but I imagine the placenta breaking away from the walls of my small apartment inside my mother’s womb and gravity dragging me down a long dark tunnel toward the light.  I’m sure I resisted a bit because I love the feeling of soaking in a warm tub in a small […]

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Ghosts of Christmas Past

Here’s an excerpt from a short story I wrote about the bygone era of the family Christmas party, hosted by my grandmother every  year at her house for half a century: Caroling, Caroling by Jane Arie Baldwin My Grandfather, the alcoholic, stopped drinking before I was born.  Years later, alcohol still was not officially allowed […]

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