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Family Friday: My Stones

Dairy-Free Life, Family Friday / By Kylie Louise McCormick / August 21, 2020 August 21, 2020

Shabbat Shalom! I am remembering the first kidney stone that sent me to the hospital today. I woke up in excruciating pain that morning but managed to type out a few pages of my English thesis. Curled around my laptop and writhing in pain, as I recall, I had my main character fall and split …

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Small Town Crime

Poetry, Throwback Thursday / By Kylie Louise McCormick / August 20, 2020 August 20, 2020

This poem is based on an article I read in a small town newspaper back in 2008. While this isn’t one of my best poems, I do enjoy the movement created by the punctuation and flow of words. As much as poetry is an oral tradition, it is also an extremely visual art form. Small …

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Family Friday: Digging Holes

Family Friday / By Kylie Louise McCormick / August 14, 2020 August 14, 2020

There is something wonderful about taking a shovel and digging a hole, the start of some project, or, in my case, the continuation of a very drawn out project. This week I have been digging the future wetland filter for our future backyard pond. The pond is a hole I started digging in my preteen …

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Blackout Poetry in the Stars

Poetry, Throwback Thursday / By Kylie Louise McCormick / August 13, 2020 August 13, 2020

The summer of 2011 I stumbled upon Austin Kleon‘s work sitting on a shelf in a bookstore. Not heeding the title of one of his books, Steal Like an Artist, I immediately purchased that along with his work of poetry, Newspaper Blackout. I loved the poems he created with a permanent marker and the restrictions …

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Family Friday: Pathfinder

Family Friday / By Kylie Louise McCormick / August 7, 2020 August 6, 2020

Shabbat Shalom! My favorite childhood memories take place on the dusty back roads and waters of the Pathfinder Wildlife Refuge. Listening to Prairie Home Companion or singing along to a John Prine song as our little white pickup bounced along the gravel roads, we explored each of the back roads. Some nights we would sleep …

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Baby Bird-er

Photography, Throwback Thursday, Wyoming / By Kylie Louise McCormick / August 6, 2020 August 6, 2020

Today I hope to pay a family of eagles a visit. For the last several years, my family has enjoyed watching the growth and home-improvements of a pair of bald eagles living on the Pathfinder Wildlife Refuge. I could see myself becoming an avid birder, if I could ever find the time. Today I thought …

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Family Friday: A Squirrel’s Balance

Family Friday / By Kylie Louise McCormick / July 31, 2020 July 31, 2020

Shabbat Shalom! This morning two young squirrels are playing in the cherry blossom tree outside of my window as I think over my week, ahead and behind me. They flick their tails and make noises that sound muffled in their throats, bouncing on the thinner branches and learning how to balance. I see myself in …

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Half a bottle of vodka & half a loaf of bread

Judaism, Throwback Thursday / By Kylie Louise McCormick / July 30, 2020 July 30, 2020

This is a poem pieced together from notes and lines in a notebook I used while serving as the teaching assistant for the Holocaust course offered at the University of Nebraska. During my time with the class, I was able to schedule some survivors to come speak with our students. I tried my best to …

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Family Friday: A Simple Love

Family Friday / By Kylie Louise McCormick / July 24, 2020 July 24, 2020

Shabbat Shalom! This week my parents celebrated their 41st wedding anniversary and each day since they have been teasing each other by recalling where they would be on their road trip honeymoon. “Meet you in Colorado Springs,” my dad calls out to my mom as he heads to his chiropractor appointment. Their celebration makes me …

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Dancing Trees

Poetry, Throwback Thursday / By Kylie Louise McCormick / July 23, 2020 July 23, 2020

This is a poem I found in one of my old notebooks. Near as I can tell, I wrote it sometime in college. There isn’t too terribly much for me to say about this poem except that in each verse, I see my little inspirations– from romance songs about dancing in the moonlight, to my …

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