Category Archives: Sandy’s Memoirs

Once Upon a Time in the Northwest

When I was a child I became aware my father had lived another life before me and my siblings. Continue reading

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Betsy Waits in the Green Room

When I am most at deep play, absorbed in the world of a story I am telling to myself, Betsy is with me as she has always been, Continue reading

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How would you get to school and back each day?

Dec.  21st, 2010 Myth of Me Question #21: How would you get to school and back each day? I spent ten years of my life riding Bus #15 to school and back. Our bus stop was the furthest out on … Continue reading

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From Clay I Came, and to Clay I Shall Return

From the top of the hill, I have tried to remove the gossamer crazy quilt of memory and see the landscape for what it is. I want to see it as ordinary, to strip myself of sentimentality and see clearly at last. Continue reading

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Dreaming My Father's Nightmares

I didn’t know it then, but they were two purple hearts, a bronze star, a sharpshooter’s medal, various foreign coins, and a small, brass-studded German language Bible. Continue reading

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Thinking About Starting Over: “Why do you come, yellow bird?”

I am following this dusky path of my dream… Continue reading

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Crocker and Brownie (In Memorium for Eric Crocker Aug. 13, 1940—Aug. 21, 2010)

Memoir essay about a 1980s love affair between two EDL intentional communitarians, Eric Crocker and Sandy Brown. Continue reading

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