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The Turn Not Taken
The Turn Not Taken
Dec 30, 2025
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Robert M. Ford
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She Spoke First
On what’s offered, what’s taken as given, and the quiet certainty of leaving a moment as it is.
Dec 22, 2025
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Robert M. Ford
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Allowed To Remain
On what’s allowed, what’s tolerated, and the quiet authority of leaving things where they stand.
Dec 19, 2025
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Robert M. Ford
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The Way It Was Placed
On what’s moved, what’s meant, and the quiet honesty of things left slightly askew.
Dec 8, 2025
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Robert M. Ford
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While the World Turned (A Tongue-in-Cheek Accounting)
Six weeks of motion, memory, unfinished business, and the small acts that kept everything from coming undone
Dec 7, 2025
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Robert M. Ford
Paths Not Yet Taken
On waiting spaces, small shifts, and the choices that stay with us.
Dec 4, 2025
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Robert M. Ford
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Stitched
On wandering threads, quiet refusals, and truths that don’t stay put.
Nov 28, 2025
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Robert M. Ford
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Redacted for Biscuits
On lost pages, polite rebellions, and the mercies that smudge.
Nov 10, 2025
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Robert M. Ford
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Signed in Pencil
On rumours, revisions, and the affections best signed in pencil.
Nov 4, 2025
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Robert M. Ford
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Motion Carried
On adjournments, biscuits, and the motions we carry long after the meeting ends.
Oct 27, 2025
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Robert M. Ford
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The Quiet Work of Returning
How peace finds its rhythm again (Oct 20–25, 2025)
Oct 26, 2025
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Robert M. Ford
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Filed Too Late
Three notebooks, one apology, and a silence that stayed open.
Oct 20, 2025
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Robert M. Ford
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