Kate Cutts
Building Memories, Not Equity
One thousand dollars is a sum I do not take for granted. I am recently returned to work full time after our change in farm status. I am...
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Kate Cutts
May 12, 20232 min read
Mommy, Mom, Mother
I am twelve-years-old, on a mission, being thwarted by the consistent delivery of the word, “No.” She is wrong to say no. I know she is...
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Kate Cutts
May 5, 20233 min read
Arbor Day, 2023
The day is gray and rainy and I am nervous about finding the place I’m supposed to report for tree-planting duty. I volunteered to help...
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Kate Cutts
Apr 28, 20233 min read
The Husband Stylist
My wardrobe is not exactly sexy. I need teacher clothes, farm clothes, jogging clothes, church clothes, and an occasional cute outfit...
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Kate Cutts
Apr 21, 20233 min read
"We Was All Hicks"
I watch a group of women at my dinner table logging on to a genealogy app, then finding other women in the country club dining room and...
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Kate Cutts
Apr 12, 20232 min read
Writing Workshop
Three fourth grade girls and I sit at a little round table for forty minutes once a week and devote ourselves to writing. These young...
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Kate Cutts
Apr 7, 20234 min read
Drowned in Hell's Creek
I look out the back passenger window while my friend Lori and her father return me home after a day of swimming. I watch my...
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Kate Cutts
Mar 31, 20233 min read
Last, Middle, First
I notice an interesting trait in my family. We bear name problems. Take my mother’s, “Willie Jo.” She hates being called Willie and...
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Kate Cutts
Mar 24, 20232 min read
Two of You
I beckon Dan through the crowded party to meet an adorable engaged couple I’m getting to know. After greetings and discussion of how...
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Kate Cutts
Mar 16, 20233 min read
Brad's Brain
Friends are over for toddler play time when the radiologist’s office calls. I need to go back in to redo images on my pregnancy...
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Kate Cutts
Mar 10, 20233 min read
Animal Encounters
My toddler longs to ride an elephant. It is a wonderful childish dream, but I don’t expect it will happen. When our young parent...
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Kate Cutts
Mar 3, 20233 min read
Cranberries Crash
Dan comes home after meeting with the other partners of Cutts Brothers. It’s not an unheard-of thing, but they see each other at work...
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Kate Cutts
Feb 24, 20234 min read
No Bourbon for Babies
I’m not in New Orleans for Mardi Gras. I grew up spending Dad’s leave time driving from duty station to visit kin in Alabama; I expect...
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Kate Cutts
Feb 16, 20233 min read
Forbidden Fruit
Slippery roads lay beneath us and icy sleet comes at us as I cling to the dash or the door alternately. My husband is a...
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Kate Cutts
Feb 10, 20233 min read
How I Met Your Father
It’s Valentine’s Day, 1984, in Searcy, Arkansas. I run to my dorm to switch books for afternoon classes, and pause to admire three...
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Kate Cutts
Feb 3, 20233 min read
Baseball Confession
“I need to confess something, but I’m afraid you won’t love me anymore when I do.” After I say this, my husband rolls his eyes and gives...
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Kate Cutts
Jan 27, 20233 min read
Philippine Jungle Child
From our Subic Bay terrace my worldview is shaped by greens and blues. A small yard extends from the carport beneath our elevated house....
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Kate Cutts
Jan 20, 20233 min read
Watching You Go
I lift my hand hesitantly and wave goodbye, tearful sobs finally ending. The early morning is cold and barely light. I slide close to my...
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Kate Cutts
Jan 13, 20233 min read
Tweaking Time
My husband and I are loaded up and rolling out of my ancestral home in Vernon, Alabama. We turn northward from my father’s rust-colored...
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Kate Cutts
Jan 6, 20233 min read
Cranberry Crawdad
Tractors putt-putt. Trucks come and go. Conversations begin and fizzle with our energy levels. The soft sounds can be easily missed: the...
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