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Counted Blessings: Thoughts Of My Mother

Counted Blessings: Thoughts Of My Mother

At my second wedding, a guest asked my mother if she cried. My mother wore her oxygen tank over a champagne-colored dress. Her lungs filled with fluid. She moved slowly and with caution. “How could I cry when she looks so happy?” she said. As she was too sick to...

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Molly B’Damn in Murray, Idaho

Molly B’Damn in Murray, Idaho

Molly B’Damn in Murray, Idaho On a fall trip from Polson, Montana to Walla Walla, Washington for a Women Writing the West conference, I stopped by Wallace, Idaho, one of Idaho’s famous mining towns. It is also one of the West’s most famous Red Light Districts. I was...

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Peace on Earth and The Gift of Literature

Peace on Earth and The Gift of Literature

Peace on earth. It’s what I wish for as each New Year comes around. Yet, as wars continue across the world, we seem further and further from peace. There are wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and Yemen, to name a few. Russia just seized three Ukrainian Naval Vessels...

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Courage and the West Revisted

Courage and the West Revisted

Since it is the end of the year, the time of year that people often share gifts as demonstrations of love and caring, I'm posting this piece that I first wrote for Don Jimmy Reviews. Books make great gifts. They transport people to other times and places, touching...

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A new, improved website!

A new, improved website!

Hello! I have a new and very much improved website at milanamarsenich.com and I am absolutely delighted about it! Please check it out and subscribe for news and notifications about new posts.

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