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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 1 year ago
Return to Civilization by Elizabeth L. Delaney Two 584-million-mile trips around the sun—the only traveling any of us could do. Two sets of birthdays and anniversaries and seasonal accoutrement. I […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 1 year ago
In the After by Sarah E. Laughter My favorite photograph shows my children trudging through a cold, whispering creek hand in hand. The afternoon light filters through the canopy, […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 1 year, 1 month ago
We Celebrate Our Winners by Susan Shafarzek It’s a pleasure—and also a great privilege—to announce the winners of this year’s Streetlight Essay/Memoir Contest. This year’s submissions made an a […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 1 year, 1 month ago
Poverty Sucks by Scott Hurd Framed on my mother’s real estate office desk was a small poster from the ‘80s. Twenty years later, it was still there in a space where a family por […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 1 year, 3 months ago
A Case of Spiriting by T. J. Masluk “To Live Until . . . ” Many know the rest of the title: “We Say Good-Bye.” It is from Kübler-Ross’s well-known book about terminal patients, […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 1 year, 3 months ago
A Very Small Adventure by Susan Shafarzek Many, oh, many, many, years ago, a friend and I took a plane trip to Minneapolis, Minn. It was not a first flight, but it was a first time west for […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 1 year, 3 months ago
Dear Portland: a Love Letter to My Childhood Sweetheart by Melissent Zuwalt We first met holding hands at the outdoor Saturday market, vendors selling tie-dyed tee shirts and us eating foods that seemed exotic to me, like […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 1 year, 4 months ago
Culture Shock by Rachel Lutwick-Deaner Fifteen years ago, I knew that moving to the Midwest would be a kind of culture shock. I knew it because I googled “Regional Food of Michigan” and the […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 1 year, 5 months ago
I reach for a glass jar of sweet gherkins and notice the same unfamiliar woman is following me down another aisle in the grocery store.
I wonder if it is a coincidence. My gut tells me otherwise.
The […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 1 year, 5 months ago
At recess, I was talking to a friend on the schoolyard, when a kid came up to us and said that President Kennedy had been shot. He did not say he had died. He just said he had been shot.
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 1 year, 6 months ago
My flight is booked. I’ll be with you at the hospital, and I’ll stay for your recovery when your kids go back to work. It’s been just a few days—plenty of time for the doctors to figure things out. We’ve been talk […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 1 year, 6 months ago
These searched for their family records, but could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.
Ezra 2:62
I can’t tell you exactly what percent of my waking hours is spent looking for t […] -
Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 1 year, 7 months ago
I would describe what I witnessed that day as a meeting of the mundane and the spiritual. I was a young man living in Boston, Mass., in the late 1970s, when I saw something that made an indelible impression on me. […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 1 year, 7 months ago
To the new family I sent a letter about the house and our memories of living there for forty-five years.
I did tell them lots of information about the house that they needed to know. I gave advice about things […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 1 year, 8 months ago
All along the coastline of Japan, hundreds of tall stone tablets stand as warnings about the possibility of natural disasters. Many date back to the 1880s, when two deadly tsunamis battered the coast and […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 1 year, 8 months ago
Succor by Brett Ann Stanciu When the pandemic first shut down our world in the spring of 2020, my fifteen-year-old daughter and I were at home, every day, all day. I had been a […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 1 year, 8 months ago
Growing up in a small rural town, I felt a strong sense of family, community, and safety.
We had farmers’ markets, county fairs with greased pigs, hayrides, pie eating contest, cake walks, musical chairs, b […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 1 year, 8 months ago
Jeff Ventura has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2022 Essay/Memoir Contest
The love of a husband for a wife, of my father’s love for my mother, is scattered in my memory like peach blossoms after a […] -
Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 1 year, 9 months ago
Susan Valas is the 3rd place winner of Streetlight’s 2022 Essay/Memoir Contest
It’s a drizzly-gray day in the spring of 1966. I stroll out the back door and climb into my dad’s Thunderbird with minutes to spa […] -
Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 1 year, 10 months ago
Was I crazy to want to attend two different public events on a single hot summer’s day? Maybe, but after two years of the Covid pandemic, there were a couple of Fourth of July events I really wanted to a […]
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