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Baptizing the Two Halves of Me

Baptizing the Two Halves of Me

by Ann Lee Miller | Jul 28, 2017 | Blog, Florida Southern College, Just The Facts Fridays

I sat on the edge of Mom’s bed, staring, not at her, but at the palm frond that had drooped and dried over a picture frame—left over from last Palm Sunday. I focused back on Mom’s brown eyes—that held half the hazel of my own—sucked in a breath for courage. “I want to...
E-mail From God

E-mail From God

by Ann Lee Miller | Apr 22, 2016 | Blog, Coconut Grove FL, Just The Facts Fridays, Miami FL- Living Aboard a Sailboat

Station wagons puttered past me, hauling my classmates from St. Hugh’s. I scuffed my saddle shoes along the sandy berm of Charles Street, the only kid walking home from school. Pines rustled and puddled shade on the pavement. I had never outrun the solitary feel of...
Sun, Sandcastles, and Sin

Sun, Sandcastles, and Sin

by Ann Lee Miller | Feb 19, 2016 | Blog, Coconut Grove FL, Just The Facts Fridays, Miami FL- Living Aboard a Sailboat

I tip-toed across the deck, debating the chances I could disappear before Dad saddled me with some miserable boat chore he thought up while I was sitting in Sister Sheila’s sixth grade English class. I skirted the cockpit and ducked behind the aft cabin, not daring to...
Baptizing the Two Halves of Me

Baptizing the Two Halves of Me

by Ann Lee Miller | Sep 25, 2015 | Blog, Florida Southern College, Florida Southern College, Just The Facts Fridays, New Smyrna Beach FL

I sat on the edge of Mom’s bed, staring, not at her, but at the palm frond that had drooped and dried over a picture frame—left over from last Palm Sunday. I focused back on Mom’s brown eyes—that held half the hazel of my own—sucked in a breath for courage. “I want to...
Mary Jane, the Catholic Church, and Me

Mary Jane, the Catholic Church, and Me

by Ann Lee Miller | Oct 31, 2014 | Blog, Just The Facts Fridays, Stuart FL

I climbed into the back seat of Reid Ferr’s GTO behind St. Joe’s, the fifth kid in. Catholic Youth Organization had just let out. I thumbed through my brand new paperback copy of Good News for Modern Man. Before we’d gone a block, Joey Ent, sitting shotgun, lit a...

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