The Wedding Dress and the Seeds of the Pomegranate Legacy and Transformation—holding on, letting go, and the heart of my upcoming novel

The Wedding Dress and the Seeds of the Pomegranate: on how Persephone and Demeter are teaching me to let my daughter go.
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Even When the World Closes In, You Can Still Begin A Mantle and Two Lines

Even When the World Closes In, You Can Still Begin
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Should I Write Fiction While the World Is Burning? Writing Through the Chaos

Should I Write Fiction While the World Is Burning?
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Between Sicily and the Sea: My Journey to Seeds of the Pomegranate A few months from now, I’ll be standing in a bookstore, or at a festival, or on a Zoom square, reading from the book I’ve spent the better part of the last fifteen years writing.

Between Sicily and the Sea: My Journey to Seeds of the Pomegranate
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welfare for white men

🇺🇸 “Sí, se puede”: Helping Immigrants Become Citizens — A Conversation with Heidi “Some things are HARD, and they take a ton of courage. But sí, se puede. It can be done.”

🇺🇸 “Sí, se puede”: Helping Immigrants Become Citizens — A Conversation with Heidi
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My Father's Ledger What Congress Doesn't Understand About Illness and Work

My Father's Ledger
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What Garibaldi Taught Me at Saturday's Protest When democracy is under threat, history reminds us: resistance matters.

What Garibaldi Taught Me at Saturday's Protest
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So excited to be part of this wonderful anthology. Thank you, Coffee Pot Book Club for making Feisty Deeds this week's read!

What if Buddha was Wrong? Inner Peace and Expectation

What if Buddha was Wrong?
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The Art of the Deal? Or Justice as Fairness Two Opposing Views of the Persephone Myth

The Art of the Deal? Or Justice as Fairness
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Out of the Underworld Reaching Out to Each Other in an Unrecognizable World

Out of the Underworld
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Book Review: The End and the Beginning Brilliant novel set in Germany in the final days of World War II

Another beautiful book with clear resonance for today's confusing world

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Very recently, I was talking to people about the lack of a good outlet for ebooks, and I cannot tell you how utterly delighted I am by this news. It’s awfully nice to be utterly delighted about ANYTHING at the moment. bookshop.org/ebooks

What the fuck is happening? Is this how TikTok got to stay in U.S.?

A good way to get away from Amazon

UNREAL. Unions are more important than ever, in workplaces increasingly controlled by oligarchs. The yes vote to unionize Whole Foods yesterday has to be certified by the National Labor Relations Board. Wanna guess how that's going to go?

that's the truth. unlimited campaign spending by billionaires is what got us into this situation.

Yeah. It's a real win-win situation.

poor cutie! I hope he's on the mend soon!

If You Zoom Out Far Enough, You Can't See The People ... Trump's Executive Orders and All the Colors of the Rainbow

If You Zoom Out Far Enough, You Can't See The People ...
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this:

Sometimes the moral arc of the universe
does not bend in a direction that comforts us.

Sometimes it bends in ways we don't expect and there are people who fall off in the process.

#octaviabutler #parableofthesower #booksky

In the Persephone Days Finding beauty, justice and fairness in the bleakest days

In the Persephone Days
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Family secrets and story writing How a trip to Sicily unlocked a long-held family secret

Family secrets and story writing
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Welcome to IN A FLASH Lit Mag & Submission Guidelines! Hi, We’re The Flashies, and We Want To Publish Your Work.

Welcome to IN A FLASH Lit Mag & Submission Guidelines!
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LOVE

Free Skate at the Civic Center Round and round we go

Free Skate at the Civic Center

Happy New Year's Eve! I hope you consider subscribing to my newsletter through substack if you enjoy it.

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Letting a story take shape (Or: about Thanksgiving Notebook, an as-yet-unfinished essay...)

Letting a story take shape
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Book Review: Dispossessed by Desiree Zamorano
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