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Honest Review | Father’s Day Gifts: 3 Different Wallets for Different Kinds of Dads

May 22, 2019 // 0 Comments

Note: This is an honest review. Neither Sweatpants & Coffee nor the authors have been financially compensated for this review. If there’s one thing this review has [...]

Sweatpants & Soul | Drinking Coffee in Diners

September 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

Some of my earliest memories – the misty, water-colored ones just like in the song – are about coffee. I remember the smell of it, puffing out from behind the counter of [...]

Sweatpants & Soul | In Heaven as It Is on Earth

May 29, 2017 // 0 Comments

Papa believed in heaven for most of his life. To be absent from the body meant present with the Lord, at least for the self-selected who believed Jesus was Messiah and shared [...]

Personal Essay | Nourishment

November 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

Early last fall, I lost my appetite. I ate just enough to keep me going. Nothing more, nothing less. After five years of writing a book about food, I stopped eating. While I [...]

A Picnic in Paradise

June 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

Every year, I fail to observe my father’s deathiversary. I am usually reminded of it when my sister tags me in a picture on Facebook. She’s so good. Hawaiian Asian [...]

Personal Essay | Finding Dad by Losing Him

March 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

By L.M. Dalton The pale blue box containing my father’s ashes sits on the credenza in front of my TV. The box contains only half of them, actually. My sister has the rest. [...]

The Color Wheel of Grief

March 13, 2015 // 6 Comments

Katie Devine’s writing has appeared on sites including Huffington Post, Role Reboot, XO Jane, Medium, The Manifest-Station and Thought Catalog. She chronicles her travels [...]