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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Category Archives: Memoir

Evil Incarnate, More Dangerous than Demons: Part VI of My Halloween Series

October 28, 2026

My continuing series of True Life Ghost Stories to celebrate Halloween. Read Parts I and II here. Parts III and …

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True Tales for Halloween: The Night a Demon Sat on My Chest

October 25, 2026

My continuing series of True Life Ghost Stories to celebrate Halloween. Read Parts I and II here. Parts III and …

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A Halloween Special: When the Dead Refuse to Leave, & Resident Evil

October 22, 2026

My continuing series of True Life Ghost Stories to celebrate Halloween. Read Parts I and II here. True Ghost Stories, …

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True Tales about the Hauntings, Ghosts & Demons I Have Known

October 19, 2026

As Halloween draws near, I like to repost a series of true life tales about the hauntings, ghosts, and demons I …

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It’s a Hard Knock Life for Kids, Books & Reviews

August 11, 2025

Little Orphan Annie knew all about what it’s like as a child to live a “hard knock” life, and yet …

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55 Years and Still Celebrating

April 30, 2025

Years ago I wrote a series of posts called Memoir of a Marriage in Poetry, exploring married love in all …

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Growing Younger, Day by Day, a Gift

October 20, 2024

I just celebrated another birthday and thought I’d share with you again something I wrote a few years ago. For …

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The Primordial Pleasure of Swimming

July 22, 2024

Now that the weather has warmed and heated our pool, Dale and I go swimming every afternoon. It’s not just …

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Summer Sea Saga, A Dream Comes True

June 30, 2024

With summer blooming all around me and needing time to enjoy it, I thought I’d repost here some summertime favorites. …

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Birthing & Rebirthing, A Constant Becoming

May 12, 2024

When my granddaughter was born my heart fell apart and I became a new thing. We’re astounded again and again …

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After sailing around the world in a small boat for six years, I came to appreciate how tiny and insignificant we humans appear in our natural and untamed surroundings, living always on the edge of the wild, into which we are embedded even while being that thing which sets us apart. Now living again on the edge of the wild in a home that borders a nature preserve, I am re-exploring what it means to be human in a more than human world.

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