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Life Changes Fast

After I finished reading Joan Didion’s A Year of Magical Thinking—a memoir of sorts chronicling the period following the sudden cardiac arrest and resulting death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne—I went back and reread the first chapter. With the … Continue reading

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Displaced Caribou and the Loneliness of Believing

I was in the middle of my political awakening, pissed about the wars and worried about the fate of the planet, when I started writing letters to my congressman, representative Howard “Buck” McKeon, the ten-term Republican who has represented the … Continue reading

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