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Published essays you can read on the web:

"Fine, Thanks"

I have spent a lot of time dealing with chronic health issues. It's hard to know how to be a "good sick girl."  (This essay won second place in the Richard H. Cracroft Personal Essay Contest, 2018.)

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"The Band Reunited and We All Bought Tickets"

I wrote this the day after I attended a Howard Jones concert that made me feel simultaneously young again and quite middle-aged. (From River Teeth: Beautiful Things)

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"Systole, Diastole"

How my heart condition has made me see others differently. (From JMMW, noted in Best American Essays 2019)

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"Notes on the Back of the Recipe" (from North Dakota Quarterly, nominated for a Pushcart--download pdf of entire issue here; essay is on p. 37]

I treasure the recipe my mother, who died of cancer, was famous for.

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