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August 18, 2019 by Just Vibe

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AN ORANGE CONE WITH TWO SCOOPS OF PROGRESS, PLEASE
August 23, 2019

It was late summer of 1967 when my twenty-year-old parents and five-month-old brother moved from Satellite Beach, Florida to Houston, Texas. Almost out of the Florida panhandle, they stopped to fill up their red ‘65 Chevy Impala.  “Where you all headed?” the station attendant asked…

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Another Year Has Passed
Another Year Has Passed
August 22, 2019

Every March we await the coming of pairs of yellow-crested night herons  that build their nests and breed in our great Houston Heights live oak trees The day they fly in  allows us the privilege of being present at the painstaking labor of building a nest the laying of pale blue…

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Reverse SAD
Reverse SAD
August 21, 2019

Each Houston summer, I experience this deal I call Reverse SAD. You might have just read that and thought, Oh, this dude gets happy in the summer. He must like ice cream, and the feeling of burning sand between his toes, and swamp-ass. But no,…

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Home Again in Houston
Home Again In Houston
August 20, 2019

A vacation trip, no matter where we go, how far, or what we do when we get there, can energize and refresh us. I’ve found that the key to this benefit is a change from everyday normality, taking a break from jobs, houses, cars, and…

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Summer Stories is a collection of poetry and essays written by local Houston writers. It is a creative non-fiction expression of living–eating, sleeping, breathing–over the course of one hot summer, in this place we call home.

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