Category Archives: Memoir

Choosing my stories

Posted on 16 March 2012 by

Do I choose the stories I retell, or do they choose me? I frequently see lists of favorite books online, or of formatively important books, or of great classic books you ought to have read, so bold the ones you … Continue reading →

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The best revenge

Posted on 1 April 2010 by

My sister has never been particularly religious; that was always my job, to be The Religious One in the family. But a few years ago, kind of out of the blue, she became a Mormon. Since then, we have had … Continue reading →

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The Love Is Here To Stay

Posted on 30 March 2010 by

The other way I watched the new Doctor Who episodes “The Empty Child” and “The Doctor Dances” for a second time and found them as creepy, funny, and touching as on first viewing. (“It’s either Marxism in action or a … Continue reading →

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Songs my parents taught me, take one

Posted on 29 March 2010 by

My dad was not a liar, precisely. He just sometimes couldn’t keep straight the distinction between the reality in his mind and the consensual reality he shared with the rest of us. So it’s understandable that for a long time, … Continue reading →

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