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Growing Pains - M.M. Cochran

I am the raft

I remember last News Year’s, writing my first column of 2024 in the guest room of a friend’s ...

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Following every sunset

They say stress can kill you. But I think it’s nostalgia that can do it.  The way nostalgia ...

Growing Pains - M.M. Cochran

Moonlight reflections 

When I was a kid, I used to have annual piano recitals. I absolutely hated them, and each ...

Growing Pains - M.M. Cochran

It’ll be an adventure

The last time I felt growing pains, I was graduating from college. My first column series was titled ...

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It’ll get better 

It’ll be the helicopters.  It’ll be the helicopters I’ll remember vividly as I recall this strange week one ...

Growing Pains - M.M. Cochran

The kayaks will never lose color

On Monday, I went up Melrose Mountain and visited a swimming lake I’d hung out at one summer ...

Growing Pains - M.M. Cochran

Start trimming up

I’ll start by saying that this column has nothing to do with growing pains like it mistakenly says ...

Growing Pains - M.M. Cochran

Repetition of history

All my memories of running out to grab the newspaper when I was a kid are surrounded by ...

Growing Pains - M.M. Cochran

Chasing deadlines, writing history

I remember the first day I walked into the Tryon Daily Bulletin building. August, 2018. Resume in hand, ...

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I’ll be on the porch

Ah, an ocean breeze. The wind in your hair. Toes in the sand. Waves breaking in the distance. ...

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