Monthly Archives: July 2012

The Urge for Going

Posted on July 23, 2012 by allisongreenwriter

Over thirty years ago I trolled the “Ave” of Seattle’s University District, about a mile from where my family moved when I started eighth grade. At Budget Records, I flipped through bins of bootlegged albums in white sleeves. I still … Continue reading →

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Partridge Family Feminism

Posted on July 10, 2012 by allisongreenwriter

I was seven years old when “The Partridge Family” broadcast the episode “My Son, the Feminist.” Keith, the heart-throb lead singer, offers to play music at a rally for Power of Women because his girlfriend Tina is a member (get … Continue reading →

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Rituals

Posted on July 3, 2012 by allisongreenwriter

Last year my partner’s best childhood friend died of cancer. Arline changed her Facebook profile picture to a photograph of herself and Alma, dancing on the sea wall in Panama in their high school uniforms. She kept that picture up … Continue reading →

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