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The Glove
I did not buy the glove with money. I bought it with patience. That is what nobody tells you about S&H Green Stamps. The store did not feel like a store. It felt like a vault of things you had already half earned. You walked in with a book, or two, or three, pages heavy…
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Inventory
The Adam’s apple in old photographs,a hard comma in the throat’s soft sentence. Shoulders built for a doorwayyou never meant to walk through. The particular wrongness of a swimsuit,size medium, women’s,purchased with shaking handsand worn like a confession. A binder’s compression at 6 a.m.,ribs remembering all daywhat they were flattened for. The five-o’clock shadowrising like…
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A Library in My Pocket
There is a moment every morning before the world begins making demands of me. The coffee is still too hot to drink. The house hasn’t quite decided whether it wants to be awake. Outside, Florida is already stretching toward another humid day, but inside there is only silence—the kind of silence that feels earned. I…
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A Movie That Inspired Me to Travel?
If I had to name one movie that inspired me to travel, it would be The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. On the surface, it’s a story about a quiet man who leaves his predictable life behind to search for a missing photograph. But beneath that simple plot is something much deeper. It’s a story about…
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If I Could Erase One Trend from History
There are plenty of trends I wouldn’t mind seeing disappear from history. Bell-bottoms. Avocado-colored appliances. Eight-track tapes that always seemed to eat themselves at the worst possible moment. Those make for fun conversations. But if I’m honest, there is only one trend I would truly erase. I would erase humanity’s habit of deciding that some…
G R A C H E K
Dee Grachek is an author and Presbyterian pastor whose work explores faith, authenticity, identity, and hope through fiction, memoir, and spiritual writing.
Drawing on a life of ministry and personal transformation, Dee writes emotionally honest stories that invite readers to discover grace, courage, belonging, and the enduring power of unconditional love.
Dee is passionate about helping others find the courage to live authentically and discover a God whose love is wider than our fears, with writing marked by emotional honesty, theological depth, and an abiding conviction that every person’s story matters.