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 | The Hungry Ghosts
An essay, a meditation on events that I recall from my service as an Army nurse during the Vietnam War. It describes the disruption of war in the countryside, and is a sort of wartime travelogue of the soul, centering upon a trip to Hue from my first as...
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 | Down South: A Granddaughters Memories
I was abandoned by my mother as an infant, and raised by my Grandmother Ernestine. As I've grown older, I've come to realize that Grandmother, through oral storytelling, gave me my values and my profession as a fiction writer. Stories have the ability t...
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 | These Are the Eyes
My nine year old daughter is always asking impossible questions, "Mom, which would you rather lose, your ability to hear or to see?" I wouldn't want to lose either ability but I would have to pick a hearing loss over vision. My biggest fear when traveli...
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 | Who Discovered the North Pole?
After writing a book (FATAL NORTH) about the first U.S. expedition to the North Pole in 1871-73 (the Polaris Expedition didn't get anywhere near the Pole but lots of exciting and mysterious events took place en route), I decided to turn my attention to ...
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 | 27 July G.I. You Die
The Korean conflict is often referred to as the “forgotten” war. As true as that may be, the expiration of the armistice that ended the conflict is even more forgotten even though the North Koreans were threatening an invasion. I was a very naïve 1...
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 | Volunteer Envy
When I was thirty-four, I went back to the shelter where I'd once lived as a fifteen-year-old runaway. Now that I was a respectable thirtysomething yuppie, I wanted to revisit the part of my past that had always caused me the most pain; I also wanted to...
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 | Consulting Contracts and Money
I wrote this piece to answer some of the most common questions sent to me by readers of my two books on Consulting, The Secrets of Consulting and More Secrets of Consulting. The piece addresses sticky questions about collecting fees from clients.
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 | City of Ruin
On December 6, 1907, in Monongah, West Virginia, the heart of coal country, the worst coal mining disaster in history occurred as over 500 miners—men and children—were beginning their work day. A lone spark set in motion a blast so powerful horses, ...
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 | Why I Write About Elves
This is yet another attempt to explain why I write what I write and why people in general sometimes have trouble understanding my reasoning. I have been doing this verbally and in writing since I first published Sword of Shannara. I guess I keep doing i...
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 | Swamp Water: A Memoir
Swamp Water is an excerpt of Becky Garrison's spiritual memoir in progress titled Water Talk. Her story is told through the literal and figurative metaphors of water, albeit the life giving waters of my baptism, the Louisiana swamp water that claimed th...
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