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The Thing About (My) Parents

September 17, 2019 By Len Kuntz

“The most loving parents can commit murder with smiles on their faces. They can force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.” -Jim Morrison. In life, we are bestowed certain things, whether we want them or not. The first of those two are our DNA and the family we’re […]

Filed Under: Words From The Other Side Tagged With: blog, dysfunctional, essay, Len Kuntz, nonfiction, parents, Writing

like a light

December 21, 2017 By Kevin Richard White

It was hard to remember the first drink, or what age I was. Probably a sip of beer at a family picnic or a quick sneak of Beefeater at Christmas. Whichever it was, it doesn’t matter now. Not that it ever really did. Because there’s been hundreds since and hundreds to come. There’s been enough […]

Filed Under: Words From The Other Side Tagged With: alcohol, blog, drinking, essay, Kevin Richard White, nonfiction, Raymond Carver, Writing

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