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SNIPPETS
You can catch a "Snippet" every so often when I'm inclined to share a micro-story, memoir, anecdote or opinion that reflects the everyday drama in the lives of regular people.
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Best Wedding Night Ever
(This is the fourth in a memoir series; list below) The pre-marital bliss went on for a few months in Lee, New Hampshire, before David...
dawnellenronco
Mar 21
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A Place on a Map
Note: This is the third memoir in a series. For full context, you might want to read Thank You, Padre Pio and Hole in the Floor, if you...
dawnellenronco
Apr 20, 2024
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Hole In the Floor
If you read the first installment of this series (Thank You, Padre Pio), you know how I met my husband-to-be David, the secret of his Art...
dawnellenronco
Jan 28, 2024
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Thank You, Padre Pio
In 1978, a gangly guy with a beard was seen around the hospital where I worked as a social worker. We were told he was the street worker...
dawnellenronco
Feb 19, 2023
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Christmas 1964
Excuse me for dating myself. I know today’s wanna-be-grown-up little girls wish for cell phones, tattoos and plumped lips. But the...
dawnellenronco
Dec 20, 2022
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No Money
My mother woke me with a phone call at 5:23 this morning, dialed from her room 700 miles away in Massachusetts. “Dawn, you’ve got to help...
dawnellenronco
Nov 3, 2022
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How Marky Sparky Got His Name
Kids don’t come any cuter than my baby brother Mark, seven years my junior. He lit the world when he was born in 1963, raring to go. You...
dawnellenronco
Apr 25, 2022
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As if ...
I never expected calamity in such a pastoral setting. Picture it: Clusters of nearly branchless, dead trees, reaching up out of the blue...
dawnellenronco
Mar 18, 2022
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Unfinished Furniture
It would command no more than $75 in a yard sale, its condition Good at best. Anyway, no one wants old wooden desk with no keyboard tray...
dawnellenronco
Feb 19, 2022
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Just Published!
Do you like a story where everyday characters struggle to resolve a moral dilemma? Check out my story, Crawl Space, which was just...
dawnellenronco
Jan 22, 2022
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Pickled Eggs & Beer
That’s me, the jowly kid on the right, with my younger cousin. The picture was probably taken around Christmas, 1956, just before the...
dawnellenronco
Jan 11, 2022
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I-540
Not to pick on I-540, because every public roadway has them — but I recently encountered all these types in the five-minute ride between...
dawnellenronco
Dec 9, 2021
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Tape, Paper, Scissors
Many a mother can produce a Band-Aid, a measuring tape, ibuprofen or a pair of collapsible scissors from her pocketbook. As her...
dawnellenronco
Nov 27, 2021
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The Clutch
While our parents drank martinis in the other room, my brother and I ate supper at a round, mahogany pedestal table that must have...
dawnellenronco
Oct 30, 2021
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Pea Rugs
Growing up, my brothers and I hated peas. Especially those soft, yellowy ones with their skins coming off. Yuck. But even though it was...
dawnellenronco
Oct 30, 2021
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