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I’m Still Not Without My Father

2018-01-30
By: Andra Watkins
On: January 30, 2018
In: Family, Make a Memory, What's Happening?

On Christmas Eve, my father had brain surgery, a quick procedure to drain a subdural hematoma. Instead, we started 2018 wondering whether my father would be with us much longer. Twelve hours after the hospital released Dad, he was back in the emergency room with stroke-like symptoms. The hospital helicopteredContinue Reading

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Where Greta Garbo Went to Be Alone

2017-12-05
By: Andra Watkins
On: December 5, 2017
In: Travel, What's Happening?, Writing

Greta Garbo is making news again. Sotheby’s will be auctioning a cache of Garbo private letters and photos, many of which outline her loneliness and frustration with being a female creative forced to perform what she deemed mediocre work. To honor their release, I’m reposting a story about my accidentalContinue Reading

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