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Eileen Vorbach Collins
Eileen Vorbach Collins

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Lies my Mother Told Me

That’s a Tomato Plant, Sweetie — I was proud of that “Dare to Say No” T-shirt that mom picked up at the JS (that’s what we called any of the myriad of thrift shops where we bought all our clothes except for shoes and underwear (it’s short for Junk Store). An impressionable, eager to please kid…

Humor

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Lies my Mother Told Me
Lies my Mother Told Me
Humor

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The Creative Cafe

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Give Sorrow Words

Writing the stuff that hurts I have an essay that went live this week. I wrote it months ago and I’m happy that it’s found a good home. …

Writing Memoir

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Give Sorrow Words
Give Sorrow Words
Writing Memoir

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P.S. I Love You

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Darling, Meet my Boyfriend

A story of loving two men — It wasn’t love at first sight or anything so profound. Instead, it was a gradual process of getting to know one another. Nigel was a biologist. He’d written his doctoral dissertation on the milkweed bug. I learned many interesting facts from Nigel. When I complained about the critters that were…

Relationships

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Darling, Meet my Boyfriend
Darling, Meet my Boyfriend
Relationships

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SNAPSHOTS

·Jul 26, 2021

Backyard in Bloom

I always take my camera when I walk the dogs or go to a park. You never know what you’ll see. A gator, a snake, a wood stork, a strange…

Photography

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Backyard in Bloom
Backyard in Bloom
Photography

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Crow’s Feet

·Jul 21, 2021

Apps Are Us

How my phone became my BFF — We had a black rotary phone on a small end table in the living room. If I picked it up very carefully and held my breath, I might be lucky and our neighbors, our party-line, wouldn’t know I was listening in. …

Nonfiction

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Apps Are Us
Apps Are Us
Nonfiction

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Spiritual Tree

·May 9, 2021

Nature’s Artistry

It’s not always pretty —

Spiritual Weekly Prompt

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Nature’s Artistry
Nature’s Artistry
Spiritual Weekly Prompt

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ILLUMINATION

·Mar 23, 2021

Pandemic Diaries

What’s changed in a year? — As a home care nurse in Baltimore, I learned years ago how to get in and out of a house without touching any surface with my bare hands. My first AIDS patient had open sacral wounds and explosive diarrhea. …

Covid-19

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Pandemic Diaries.
Pandemic Diaries.
Covid-19

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Crow’s Feet

·Mar 10, 2021

Give me a Sign

To make up my mind — Phyllis had always had a difficult time making up her mind. Her mother never gave her much chance to practice, and so that particular skill just never fully developed. Regular or decaf? Chocolate or vanilla? The white socks or the blue ones? Simple choices people make hundreds of times every…

Fiction

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Give me a Sign
Give me a Sign
Fiction

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Inspired Writer

·Mar 10, 2021

My Writing Critique Group

What do they know? — I met them at a writer’s conference, my first ever. They have become my muses. The people I go to for inspiration, validation, celebration. There were 12 of us in a memoir workshop at Writers in Paradise, the annual writer’s conference at Eckert College. Each of our 25-page submissions were…

Creative Non Fiction

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My Writing Critique Group
My Writing Critique Group
Creative Non Fiction

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Inspired Writer

·Mar 6, 2021

I Don’t Believe in Spanking

But once, I did it anyway — He was in love with the crossing guard. Each day, when we walked the two blocks to take his sister to kindergarten, he would watch in rapture as the guardian saint of children held up her white-gloved hand and commanded the cars to stop. To his three-year-old eyes, that was…

Parenting

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I Don’t Believe in Spanking
I Don’t Believe in Spanking
Parenting

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Eileen Vorbach Collins

Eileen Vorbach Collins

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Baltimore native battling fire ants in Florida. Award winning essayist. Pushcart nominee. Writes because it’s cheaper than therapy. www.eileenvorbachcollins.com

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