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The Hedgehog
A poem
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Why It Took 20 Years To Publish This Book
The road over Lolo Pass from Missoula was slick with rain, but the melancholy felt right.
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Have We Returned to Colonial Times?
I have been thinking this week of Anne Hutchinson, the Puritan woman who stood trial in 1637 for troubling the commonwealth of New England.
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The Lake And The Sea
A short story | Julie Baker later imagined that she’d been able to feel it, a sudden turn in the wind, a bank of clouds building along the rim of the…
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How Cherries Freed Me From My Feed
Earlier this summer I saw the post above pop up in my Facebook feed.
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Does Substack Give Power to the Powerless?
Last week, while visiting Prague for the second time in three years, I happened upon a trombone trio playing a rendition of Lennon’s “Imagine” in…
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Complete My Ántonia Read Along With Joshua Doležal
From April 5 - May 31, 2024, I organized a slow read of My Ántonia. I now offer the complete guide here, in one place, for anyone who would like to…
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My Ántonia Read Along: Book V, Chapters 1-3
This was the road over which Ántonia and I came on that night when we got off the train at Black Hawk and were bedded down in the straw, wondering…
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My Ántonia Read Along: Book IV, Chapters 1-4
We reached the edge of the field, where our ways parted. I took her hands and held them against my breast, feeling once more how strong and warm and…
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My Ántonia Read Along, Book III, Chapters 1-4
As I sat down to my book at last, my old dream about Lena coming across the harvest field in her short skirt seemed to me like the memory of an actual…
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My Ántonia Read Along: Book II, Chapters 11-15
One dream I dreamed a great many times, and it was always the same.
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My Ántonia Read Along: Book II, Chapters 6-10
The girls I knew were always helping to pay for ploughs and reapers, brood-sows, or steers to fatten.
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