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Published in Age of Empathy

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Leave my Uterus Out of This — Let’s Talk About Your Kidneys

A 3-Step Plan to Get Our Bodies Back — I am oh-so-tired of hearing abortion framed as a women’s issue. Or even a women’s healthcare issue. I’m equally exhausted with all the when-do-we-become-a-real-person debate. (The point at which we get a soul seems to be when we choose a political party, as far as I can tell, so maybe…

Feminism

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Leave my Uterus Out of This — Let’s Talk About Your Kidneys
Leave my Uterus Out of This — Let’s Talk About Your Kidneys
Feminism

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Published in Age of Empathy

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Dear Garrison — Enough With Your “Aw Shucks” Whining

I’m using your interview to teach my grandson how to be a good person — Dear Garrison, I caught your interview this week on CBS Sunday Morning. I was looking forward to a nostalgic look at Lake Woebegone, and fond memories of my time in the Twin Cities. That was back when I believed in you. …

Misogyny

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Dear Garrison — Enough with your “Aw Shucks” Whining
Dear Garrison — Enough with your “Aw Shucks” Whining
Misogyny

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Published in The Memoirist

·Feb 22

I’m Here Through Sunday… Try the Veal!

My brief, instructive, and torturous bout of standup comedy — In the early nineties, when my life was overwhelmingly intense and chaotic, I did a crazy thing: I took a community ed class in standup comedy. As if raising daughters, traveling for the state health department, and creating a relationship with my partner out of whole cloth wasn’t enough, I…

Memoir

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I’m Here Through Sunday… Try the Veal!
I’m Here Through Sunday… Try the Veal!
Memoir

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Published in Crow’s Feet

·Dec 21, 2022

Holiday Letters

It’s not you, it’s me (Crow’s Feet Writing Prompt #22) Tech bloggers and Instagram fanatics tell me that the Christmas letter is, like, “so over.” A quaint, antiquated, useless custom. Or worse yet, déclassé. They use phrases like “back in the day” or “retro,” and they don’t mean charming or…

Holidays

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Holiday Letters
Holiday Letters
Holidays

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Published in Age of Empathy

·Nov 23, 2022

Is “Radical Civility” the Courage You Need?

How to Talk to An A##hole Without Losing Your Sh*t — Two summers ago I was preparing a TEDx talk. I was trying to make the case that civility is worth something. Sometimes, worth everything. I was discussing my plan with longtime writing friends in a Facebook chat. “What do you think people need to hear?” I asked. “I want to…

Self Improvement

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Is “Radical Civility” the Courage You Need?
Is “Radical Civility” the Courage You Need?
Self Improvement

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Published in Crow’s Feet

·Oct 29, 2022

Thistle The Cat Lucked Out

Compassionate Enterprise in the Next Generation (Crow’s Feet Writing Prompt #6) My granddaughter has started a business: Eleanore’s Pet Care Place. She promises excellent care for the dear, fur-covered family members of our island neighbors. So far she has two customers — me and my neighbor, Mary. It was Girl…

Crows Feet Writing Prompt

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Thistle The Cat Lucked Out
Thistle The Cat Lucked Out
Crows Feet Writing Prompt

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Published in Age of Empathy

·Jul 24, 2022

What Nurses Know

The Four Skills Nursing Taught Me for Navigating Life — I’ve been a nurse for forty years. I can’t help knowing what I know. And I have been a lot of kinds of nurses over that time: psych nurse, public health nurse, nurse educator, and nurse manager. (I have not been an operating room nurse, an emergency room nurse, or…

Lifehacks

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What Nurses Know
What Nurses Know
Lifehacks

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Published in Crow’s Feet

·Jul 3, 2022

My Last 12 Hours

When changing the smoke detector battery threatens your future — The Noise 7:30 p.m. Anne and Kate hear a loud, startling *BANG* close at hand. Agree it must be fourth of July neighborhood hoodlums. Thirty seconds later, smoke detector starts chirping. Loud. Annoying. Every eighteen seconds. Kate pauses TV streaming (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) and says, “Crap. I think the 9-volt battery…

Aging In Place

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My Last 12 Hours
My Last 12 Hours
Aging In Place

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Published in Crow’s Feet

·Jun 9, 2022

Passing as Straight — Without Really Trying

Crow’s Feet Writing Prompt #8 — For the first thirty years of my life I was straight. I dated (and married) men. In high school I was crushing on the boys with the best of them. My ambitions were pretty much identical to most of my friends’ — gonna grow up and marry a guy and…

LGBTQ

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Passing as Straight — Without Really Trying
Passing as Straight — Without Really Trying
LGBTQ

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Published in Age of Empathy

·May 30, 2022

What I Do Not Tell My Granddaughter About the Massacre at Uvalde

And Why We Should All Sit Down — Part 1: The Conversation Conversation with my granddaughter on Friday, May 27, 2022: “Meema, did you hear what happened?” “About the school children?” She nods. “I did. What did you hear?” “My mom told me. She said that some of my friends might be talking about it, so she wanted me to know. …

Guns

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What I Do Not Tell My Granddaughter About the Massacre at Uvalde
What I Do Not Tell My Granddaughter About the Massacre at Uvalde
Guns

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