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Results36Chances for Free Copies of Casualties
A quick post to let you know that my publisher is giving away copies of Casualties over on Goodreads. The giveaway begins today and runs right
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Walking With My Wedding Dress(es)
December 26, 2015 This morning I carried my two wedding dresses to the end of Ocean Beach Pier. I’d planned to drop them at the dry
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Sunday Sentence: Lucy Corin’s The Entire Predicament
I love reading them, so now I’m joining the #SundaySentence party started by David Abrams over at the Quivering Pen and on Twitter. It’s not a review. It’s not a
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Sunday Sentence: God Bless America by Steve Almond
I love reading them, so now I’m joining the #SundaySentence party started by David Abrams over at the Quivering Pen and on Twitter. It’s not a review.
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Veterans, Civilians: Connecting With Stories
Nine years ago, I joined over eight hundred others in Encinitas, California and listened to three veterans tell stories about their time at war.
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Wild Women Walking
When I set out to write this essay, I thought I was going to write a droll list of reasons why I could never have written
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Old Yeller and The Repo Man: Thanksgiving 1986
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnhojq63-Bs The movie is Old Yeller and it plays out on the television in the corner of the hospital room. My son, then eleven, watches from
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Gifts For and From the Dead
You may see the usual Halloween suspects on Halloween night – zombies, witches, the cast of characters from Game of Thrones. I’m betting you won’t see anyone
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When I Die, I Want to Become a Tomato
When I die, I want to be composted. I’d like to come back as a tomato. When I tell my family this, they just sniff and
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