HeyJaredKaren Anderson
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Essays by Karen Anderson: On the River (opens the original)
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My husband holds the canoe steady as I climb in. Then he takes his place in the stern and we push off into the river. The paddle feels light in my hands as I dip, pull, lift, twist. For the first hour, paddling seems effortless and I watch the scenery going by—the steep sandy bluffs, the tall white pines. By hour two, my back is aching but when I cross my legs, the ache is gone. We stop for lunch and sit on a fallen log to eat bread, cheese and apple slices—with a thermos of strong coffee. Climb
Essays by Karen Anderson: Forecast (opens the original)
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While the rest of the family is still getting dressed, my father has already walked around the motel parking lot for exercise. Popping back in the door, he says, “Rise and shine; the weather’s fine.” We already know the weather isn’t fine because we heard the thunder last night and can hear rain pattering on the pavement. “Clearing in the east,” Dad says. The sky looks gray in every direction as I climb into the car—and it’s raining harder when we leave the restaurant. My father is undaunted. “C
Essays by Karen Anderson: Bonnie's Cottage (opens the original)
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Finally, Bonnie invites me to spend a week at her family cottage — the cottage she’s been bragging about all through eighth grade. Every day we will go swimming, she says, and sit on the dock and wait for boys to pick us up in their speedboats. But the lake is too cold for swimming and even though we sit on the dock every day, no boys come by. As it turns out, the only invitation to ride in a speedboat comes from Bonnie’s dad on the last night of my visit. “There are lots of little coves in this
Essays by Karen Anderson: Secret of Popularity (opens the original)
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My mother sets the timer on the piano and I sit on the piano bench with my practice book. First I do scales and then stupid little songs about snow flakes and rain drops. When the buzzer goes off, I bolt from the piano. “You could at least finish the song,” my mother says in her disappointed voice. “I hate practicing,” I say as I open the refrigerator. “But playing the piano will make you popular,” my mother says. Lord knows I want to be popular. I want to be Cookie Jones because all the boys lo
Essays by Karen Anderson: Inner Beauty (opens the original)
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Plastic surgery seems to be very popular these days and I wonder why. Do people want to look more attractive to others or to themselves? Maybe both. Then I remember a man I’ll call George. He wasn’t handsome in any traditional sense, but soon after we met, I wanted to know him better. The author Henry James made this same discovery about Mary Ann Evans, the woman who wrote the famous novel, “Middlemarch,” in 1871. “To begin with,” he said, “she is magnificently ugly—deliciously hideous,” and he
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