Fill Your Bowl with Cherries

Emily Kingsley
6 min readJul 28, 2023

The ties that bind the War of 1812 to chainsaw grease to a peach pit.

Photo by UNIBOA on Unsplash

Tonight at dinner, I sliced a peach and put it in a bowl on the table. My husband is camping on a glacier in Alaska this week, so dinner at our house has been casual. In addition to the peach, my kids and I ate garlic bread and hotdogs.

“Please pass the cherry bowl,” I said to my son.

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Emily Kingsley

Always polishing the flip side of the coin. Live updates from the middle class. e.kingsleywhalen@gmail.com. She/her.