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What we learn when we struggle

What we learn when we struggle

I wrote the following semi-auto-biographical short story for my Masters in Creative Writing, and thought I would share it: You spent the last four weeks learning how to be a teacher. That was it, just four weeks. In a small glass-fronted converted shop, you sat behind small desks and participated in large craft projects and focused learning. And now, jobs acquired, you have just travelled for hours by bus and ferry from Koh Samui, Thailand, to Bangkok, Thailand. You arrived…

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A New England garden

A New England garden

As the garden grew, she started to fade. We got married on the beach in Maine, in April. At the time that had seemed like a good idea. Her parents had visited me in Norway in April the year before and it had been hot and sunny. And Maine is further south than Norway. And she is from New England, she would know what the weather was like. Years later on our anniversary, standing on that beach, in the driving…

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