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The Misogynist Rhetoric Runs Deep: 1980 – present
This is the beginning of a piece about sexual assault: This is from Flickr User Hey Paul Studios It is deep inside me, a sliver of an idea, an idea that I have tried to banish by reading feminist...
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Disappointing the Christian Republicans, It Hurts: 1997 – present
The last bit of this reads like I’m a PhD. I’m not. I have a BA in English. In the larger piece, that is clear before you get here. Hanging out with some friends this weekend, we were talking about...
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Writing in Church: 2013
from flickr user A Quiverful of Fotos My friend and neighbor, we’ll call her Stella, started working at a church last summer. She’s working here Monday through Thursday nine to one. She invited me to...
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Santa’s Penis: 1989
From Flickr user srqpix I am probably eight years old. We are at Rehoboth Beach in one of the many junk shops where we purchased two hermit crabs earlier in the week: one for me, one for my brother,...
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I got rid of half of my books: 2013
This is from Flickr user, Chillihead Until recently, half of what I own was books. Now, perhaps a quarter. I sat down with my book collection and I culled it. I looked at titles that I’d read, and...
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Letter to my daughter’s “father”
From Flickr user InaFrenzy, used under CC lisense Dear Paddy, That’s what I call you now, in my mind. It is more interesting than your proper name, and you’ll know why I picked it. I’ve been meaning to...
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A Shower With My Sister: 2004
Recent picture of my sisters and I from Summer 2012 in State College. Apparently, Child took this photo. Ellen is the one on the left. I was pregnant. I was also unwed, reading The Scarlet Letter, and...
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A Good Chat, a Good Chap: Writing About Alive People
from Flickr user CraigeMorsels One of the many things that I laugh at myself about is that I’m 32. There’s really no call for me to be writing a memoir. I’ve got no business. I don’t think it would...
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AWP Makes Me Sleepy, Inky, and Blissful
My friend Beth enlisted a food service professional to snap this shot. Yes, those beers ARE that big. There’s a whole bunch of post-AWP posts this morning. Here’s one I like most, my friend Beth wrote...
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On Writing Like a Motherfucker*
here’s my morning joe, super creamy, hold the sugar, but not the Sugar. I’ve read and heard a lot of writers talk about their relationship with a particular talisman–I forget who has a mug with Gold...
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The Joy and Pain of Revision: Strong Body, Strong Mind
from Flickr user robinsbox. What do you see? Look again, do you see something different? Most of you know I’ve been working on a memoir. If you missed it, you can read up here and here and here. In...
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Floatsam and Jetsam of Living the Dream
Peasant Woman, Art. Last grad school residency, my cohort was required to attend a panel discussion of agents and editors. As I’m sure you can all imagine, we were chomping at the bit to impose our...
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I Buy My Parents Underwear For Christmas: 1998
Kelley took loads of pictures of my family. Here’s one of my parents, probably around the time I bought them underwear for Xmas. Picture by Kelley Stevens. My cute parents. I am in the Point Mall...
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The Misogynist Rhetoric Runs Deep: 1980 – present
This is the beginning of a piece about sexual assault: This is from Flickr User Hey Paul Studios It is deep inside me, a sliver of an idea, an idea that I have tried to banish by reading feminist...
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Disappointing the Christian Republicans, It Hurts: 1997 – present
The last bit of this reads like I’m a PhD. I’m not. I have a BA in English. In the larger piece, that is clear before you get here. Hanging out with some friends this weekend, we were talking about...
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The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be*
Me and My Mentor, Nancy McKinley, at Fake Graduation from Wilkes A lot of shit happened during 2013. I moved twice, took care of my dying friend, had more freelance clients than ever, lost myself,...
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Five Fabulous Memoirs by Women
How To Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran rocks. The cover says, “The British version of Tina Fey’s Bossypants.” That is a lie. This book is at least seven times better than Bossypants. It is feminist and...
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Sometimes, Writing Takes Breaks and Makes Zombies
This only took about 12 hours! I was going to post something amusing today about literary submission + rejection and how it is similar to the worst parts about applying to college and online dating....
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Submitting is Worse than Online Dating and Applying to College
Reading Between the Lines (in the Ivy League) As with trolling online dating profiles, you’re looking for the best. You do not want to hitch the future of your essays to any old mag. There are two Ivy...
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WTH Femme Files: Mothers without men and movies without women
From Flickr, used under Creative Commons attribution license. Flickr user Classic_Film is the owner of this image. Most of us who are mothers have enjoyed a man, if only for a few minutes. One of the...
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