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- A recently discovered DNA thread: forwarding news articles
- A Bride in Blue
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- Marriage in Oxymoronica
- The Present Moment
- If your life were a book
- From the mouths of old babes
- The Atlanta Teachers’ Onion, then and now
Category Archives: Cheri’s Hamster Family
First Hamster Point of View: Infancy
by cheri block sabraw Four infants we were, squirming with life and looking like furry little jellybeans arranged neatly in a teeny nest. Relieved of the crushing pressure of the birth canal, I had whizzed down the chute in a … Continue reading
First Hamster Point of View: My birth
by cheri block My birth was a big relief, not only to my overstuffed mother DeDe, but to me, as well. In utero I had felt crowded and thus, irritable, sharing a watery sack with four other active siblings. In … Continue reading
First Hamster Point of View
Day has come to an end. The light in Fanny’s room is beginning to slip through the Venetian blinds and soon, at exactly 6:30am, her Mickey Mouse alarm clock will sound, she will stretch her legs out long and sit … Continue reading