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allisongreenwriter
Author of The Ghosts Who Travel with Me, a memoir, and Half-Moon Scar, a novel.
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Legacies
Recently, I walked Boston’s neighborhoods: brick and wrought iron, stoops and mansard roofs. In a park, I came across twelve snow figures, each about eight feet tall. They communed, faceless, in a circle. Nearby was a Methodist church; perhaps the … Continue reading
Video of Reading: “The Urge for Going”
My thanks to Jourdan Keith for inviting me to read as part of the Word’s Worth program, which is sponsored by Seattle City Council Member Nick Licata. My reading on April 10, 2013, is the first three minutes of this … Continue reading
New Publication: “Under the Skin” in The Common
The Common, a literary journal based at Amherst College, has published my essay “Under the Skin,” which tells the story of a week Arline and I spent in Panama trying to move her mother into a better nursing home. My … Continue reading
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Dignity
Fourteen years ago, a woman named Arline asked me on a date. She took me to lunch in downtown Seattle, where we ate oysters and watched ferries glide away from the dock. I couldn’t have imagined then what it would … Continue reading
The Next Big Thing
At the opening of the Brautigan Library, Clark County Historical Museum, October 2010. Tag – you’re it! I don’t know who started the game, but many authors are now playing it. A writer posts answers to questions about her next … Continue reading
At Fifty
Twenty-five years ago. Exactly. We have entered the last half of our lives. Our friends are old enough to die of old diseases. We grew up with little knowledge of death. Our mother died young. Our first lover died of … Continue reading
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Beautyberry
This time of year, the leafless limbs of Callicarpa bodinieri bobble with amethyst berries. The bright clusters are striking in December, when most of the autumn leaves have melted into brown slicks of mush. Any garden flowers that remain — … Continue reading
You’re Going to Make It After All
Sandy and the Mary Tyler Moore table plaque Over twenty years ago my best friend in graduate school, Sandy Yannone, handed me a jadite Fire King mug filled with coffee and made me a waffle. Her fat tabby cat, Wally, … Continue reading
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