Teacher, very slow writer, lover of libraries & trains.
Essays:
Heart Problems in A Public Space (Pushcart Notable)
and The New York Times
Rewilding my 1/3 acre garden, mending and darning socks and my little corner of the world
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Vicki Madden
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As we all stood up to get ready for bed, Stan asked where we would meet next year. Then he started talking again, about those 4 girls, and Halley and Eulene, and about consequences, ending with a sentence that took us all by surprise: “That’s why Kenneth became a serial killer.”
#memoir #wipsnips
We were a people who had no name. We cooked like Southerners, fried chicken, organ meats stewed with beans, yet we didn't tell stories. There were no stories, the past as closed as the dark shed in the backyard of the purple man, possibly dangerous but definitely off-limits.
#memoir #wipsnips
Vicki Madden
Vicki Madden
The driver on our Bilbao-Madrid bus has just said anyone playing their mobiles without headphones will be treated as terrorists and dealt with accordingly. ¡Viva España!
Worker wages and benefits grew just 0.8% in the first quarter from the fourth.
Domestic corporate profits? That jumped 2.7%.
The end result: GDI sank to 51%, the lowest since records began in 1947. Profits’ share climbed to 12.1%, the highest since 1950.
