My Pushcart Nomination

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‘After the House Burned Down”

YouTube Channel, Readings, and Travels

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And two night ago I arrived at the Centrum Writer’s Residency in Port Townsend, WA, to write, reflect, self-flagellate (? always!) and look at the Pacific for three weeks.

Heartbreak Bay; Adrienne Brodeur’s memoir Wild Game

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You learn about the narrator and you cluck-cluck at her adolescent mistakes of judgment (if that’s what they are, as in they were generated by her fervent love for her complicated and beautiful mother); you grow up with her and her inner anguish; you break away with relief and happiness for her.