Kandace Chapple, Michigan Girl

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Space. ❤️
What happens when you have a space that opens up in your life out of nowhere? First, you spend time figuring out that space – how the edges tattered…
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YOU
As I face the second anniversary of having to rebuild my career and so much of what was lost in the aftermath, I am going to share this essay that I…
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Mom!
Not long after losing her, I thought I saw her in the Kmart parking lot in Traverse City. I still remember it like it was yesterday, 16 years later. I…
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April 2023
My foray onto the wild side
My first (and last) Michigan gummy
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Changing life now
My mother and I never shared a glass of wine. Could that even be possible? But it was. My mother rarely drank and when she did, it was fuzzy navels. Ten…
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Maple and her unexpected crisis
(and an angel story)
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Cry whenever
I decided I would cry whenever I wanted. At first, I bit down the tears whenever they came, holding them in until it was late at night and I could turn…
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March 2023
Cookie's Secret Life
(As published in Chicken Soup for the Soul! I miss and love my Cookie. We lost her a year ago.) We live almost a half-mile from the nearest paved road…
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My (furry) midlife crisis
My midlife crisis has finally arrived! In the form of yet another puppy (2 in less than a year!). NEVER in my life had it crossed my mind to have TWO…
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The prank
I was so far behind on the ride, that they were out of sight. I knew they were ahead of me, but where? There had been no intersections in the trail and…
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More of the same
I wrote this letter to my boys the day after the funeral for my grandmother, my mother’s mother, laid to rest in a cemetery across the road from her…
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February 2023
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