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Essays
The Whole Story
In the past six months, I’ve learned about scores of abortions. I’ve learned about legal abortions and illegal abortions. READ MORE.:

Hoping for Boys
Before my son was born, I never really wanted to have a boy. It is only now that he is nearly a teenager, only now that I have been utterly in love with him for over a decade, that can I admit... READ MORE.:

Nightmares
The child is afraid of the dark. She says she is afraid to go to sleep. She weeps.
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Learning to Listen to the Land
When I was twenty-seven, I left the Northwest and moved to northern California, it was a good move, since I made it for both love and work, but for many years I missed the land I had been born into with a startling ferocity. READ MORE.: