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Dumpster Chicken

1.    I remember eating dumpster chicken when I was 19. I had just finished my freshman year of college and was playing house...

The Long Run

“Clean air, clean water, open spaces – these should once again be the birthright of every American.” ~ President Richard M. Nixon (R), 1970...

Dinner Party

“Dinner at 7?” Kristin texts and out of habit I find the thumbs-up emoji and hit send. But then it’s 6:50 and Acadia calls...

The Art of Letting Go

I followed our moving van over Boston's Tobin Bridge from Gloucester, Massachusetts. I was newly divorced; my four-year-old boy was belted into his car...

Beyoncé Sings Motherhood

MUSIC REVIEW The day of the BeyHive presale for Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter tour (open to members of her official fanclub), I was sitting at my...

Navalny, Poetry, and Truth

On the morning I heard that the Russian political activist, Alexei Navalny, had died in a Siberian prison, I was mournful but not surprised. “So...

Finding Myself Every March

March is coming, I need to get ready. I have to find that pin. It’s time to rummage through my jewelry box. Find the stash...

Forty Days on the California Trail

July 13, 1993. A big day, but Wally immediately flubbed the plan and wound up sleeping on a picnic table by the river. Not...

WOUND ENTRY

Father cuts his leather belt from the tough hides of a domestic animal, to spite the one that calls himself a vegetarian: my brother, greening in...

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Notes From a Veteran Querier

If you’ve written a book and want to publish through a traditional publisher, you’ll need a literary agent and to get one, you’ll need...

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