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Dana VanderLugt

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Tending

We’re past the halfway mark of the summer, and I can feel myself beginning to hold on too tightly. My anxiety rises as I wake

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Pliable

When my husband and I were first married we had a favorite breakfast place. We’d order the same thing to split every time: a hashbrown

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The Tender Months

My first novel comes out in the fall. Written for a middle-grade audience, it’s a novel in verse that grew from the seed of a

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Wintering

The first time you seesomething die, you won’t know it mightcome back… -Maggie Smith, First Fall It’s been a cloudy, cloudy month in these parts. 

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Drawing a Line

I was lying in bed last Sunday, scrolling through Facebook, and debating whether to get up and start the day, when I came across a

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Postcard from the Lake

My family and I recently went camping on the shores of Lake Michigan. I spent every second I could next to that big, beautiful body

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