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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Category Archives: Memoir

Memoir of a Marriage, Part IV – Love Lost & Love Renewed

April 22, 2021

Not long after I decided to leave my husband I met someone new. I was working part-time at a book …

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Memoir of a Marriage, Part III – Disappointed Love

April 19, 2021

When I first fell in love, it was a hot thing—urgent, possessive, almost feverish at times. I truly saw love …

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Memoir of a Marriage, Part II – Erotic Love

April 15, 2021

photo here In celebration of April as National Poetry Month and our 50th wedding anniversary (yes, I was a child …

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Memoir of a Marriage in Poetry, Part I – Innocent Love

April 12, 2021

In celebration of April as National Poetry Month and our 50th wedding anniversary (yes, I was a child bride), I’ll …

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True Ghost Stories: Growing Up in a Haunted House

October 26, 2020

Have you ever had any ghostly encounters? Each year around this time, I like to reblog a series of tales …

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The Personal & Political, Past & Present

October 18, 2020

Years ago, in what seems like another life time, I wrote a political column called “Taking Care of Labor” in …

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My Arms Are Empty, But My Heart Is Full

July 19, 2020

My granddaughter who had been living with me this past year is visiting with her Aunt and Uncle this summer, …

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Brushes with Blackness – Feminist or Womanist?

July 12, 2020

Third in series in how Black lives and Black culture colored my Whiteness. I came of age during the Second …

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Brushes with Blackness: Best Friends and Bullies

June 21, 2020

As a child I was completely color blind. I know today people would say that was unlikely. Or even problematic. …

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Brushes with Blackness, 1

June 12, 2020

All of us who are white in America were born into a country steeped in racism. Even for those of …

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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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