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Heather Caliri: Awkward Christian

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writing

not problem

You Are Not the Problem: For AndiLit

May 9, 2018 //  by Heather

When I was first trying to write regularly twenty years ago, I could not, for the life of me, finish anything. At the time, I was trying to write fiction. I wrote one story about a husband and wife making a hard decision over the phone. I could hear their voices in my head, imagine …

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choose

You Have to Choose: For AndiLit.com

August 16, 2017 //  by Heather

If parenthood were an economy, the currency would be sleep. You’d pay mortgage with REM cycles and buy groceries with naps. You’d fund college with any child that slept through the night. And, if you were like me, an insomniac with very wakeful daughters, you’d hoard sleep like Scrooge, clutching each second like newly minted …

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resonance

Beauty Has Saved Me Over and Over: For SheLoves Magazine

June 17, 2017 //  by Heather

To my great surprise, I discovered I was a high soprano in Grade 8. I’d thought before that I was a mezzo (or middle) soprano, but your voice changes a lot as you grow. What my choir director and I had assumed was a falsetto, turned out to be where my voice had the most power. …

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