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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Originally published at https://villaineralit.com/2025/07/01/a-beautiful-day-in-the-neighborhood-by-rhona-blaker/ The garden is where I go to sweat when I can no longer stand to think or feel, and it works, because there is always so much to do. I set it up that way...

Wake Up, Maggie

Wake Up, Maggie

Originally published at https://www.uclaextension.edu/southland-alibi/nonfiction/wake-maggie It is four o’clock in the morning and my mother can’t sleep. “I don’t suppose I could ask you to help me with the telephone,” she cries from the den. She is literally crying....