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 | Memories of a Refugee Child
After the blood and thunder of one of the most terrible civil wars in Africa, about a million corpses were left scattered all over the ruins of Biafra, by the roadside, bushes and shallow graves and millions of refugees harrowing in refugee camps besieg...
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 | Something To Be Learned (Teachers)
I love writing nonfiction, and early in my career appeared regularly in many of the public mainstays in the field, including such magazines as Holiday and the Saturday Evening Post. When a small press in San Francisco asked me to put together a collecti...
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 | Hanukah at Saint Ann's
When Christmas, Hanukah, and the grandmas all overlap in a mixed marriage, it's a bit crazy. Since when did holidays become a religious competition? Or is it a consumption contest? Here's a little insight into one family's way of coping.
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 | Mayday
Were the National Guard troops' rifles loaded with blanks? I was pretty sure they were, but not certain. That's why I was scared. Nixon was bombing the Vietnamese and the Cambodians. Hundreds of thousands of us faced off with police and soldiers in citi...
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 | Food and Fiction
I wrote this food piece to knit together my love of food and language. I've always loved to read and write about food, and to eat and cook; these passions are deeply interconnected. This essay gave me the opportunity to explore some of the ways I've com...
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 | The Whistleblower's Mistake
I've spent much of the past year learning new, better ways to tell my stories, primarily by writing short fiction. “The Whistleblower's Mistake” is a bit of a twist on the locked-room mystery. Terry Orr is almost a bystander in the story, ...
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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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 | The Guns of Doubt
“The Guns of Doubt” presented me a unique opportunity to share with my readers my passion for firearms and my admiration for two of the foremost explorers and outdoorsmen to ever explore the unknown together: former President Theodore Roos...
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 | Cowpox - The Tale of a Farmer
This is a short historical tale about a farmer. Benjamin Jesty was a dairy farmer in South Dorset, England, when smallpox was ravaging the country in the 18th century and killing great numbers. Jesty knew that his dairymaids who had contracted a milder ...
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