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Sparrows and Lilies
When I was pregnant with my first child, I asked my mother about labor. This woman who gave birth to her first on her own kitchen table (her mother...
Abortion and the Actualized Self
The Choices We Made (Angela Bonavoglia, 1990) is the latest collection of sympathetic abortion narratives, a genre Gloria Steinem refers to as “populist truth-telling,” “the heart and soul of...
Scene From a Living Room
In that house of quiet dying, through still sheers that turn the day to gray, only two chairs of six are sat upon, the bed no longer shared. She...
On Wholeness
Lying when you know you’re lying, like stuffing from a cushion, integrity gone makes a sad hole. —Camille S. Williams
