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October 20, 2020

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Personal Essays: Latest Work

AFTER THE FLOOD

Flatirons Literary Review September 2014

A meditation on the September 2013 floods in Colorado and the many torrents that converged.

A TRIBUTE TO WINTER

Slow Trains Literary Journal Summer 2008

How miscarriage froze and then gave birth to a mother.

AVALANCHE ASSESSMENT AND THE HUMAN MIND

Couloir Magazine

Winter 2005

How an avalanche happened all too soon and left many helpless.

UNMUTE YOURSELVES

Unpublished
Spring 2020

How the remoteness of remote learning affected one teacher.

Personal Essays: Recent Books

"Writing has to do with darkness, and a desire or perhaps a compulsion to enter it, and, with luck, to illuminate it, and to bring something back out to the light. "

Margaret Atwood, Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing

Personal Essays: Quote