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Image Journal: Art, Faith, Mystery Issue #38, Spring 2003 A Voice in the Wilderness I write about the virtues of working in isolation because I must. In a few weeks, I will pack up house and children and make the flight out to our distant island. I will always long for community in this place, and in my winter island home as well, and will read journals and join conferences and workshops whenever possible, but I am reconciled to the boundaries set around me. I am learning not to fear isolation and need. Indeed, as a writer, I am fed by the tensions that define my life. Perhaps these are the same tensions that define the lives of believers everywhere-who stand every day with their two feet in oppositional worlds. (more)
Christianity Today The Case for Kids: A defense of the large family by a 'six-time breeder.'I first heard the word in my college classroom a few years ago. I was an assistant professor of English at a state university, and, not incidentally, the mother of five children at the time. We were doing the usual around-the-room introductions in this opening class, which served as my forecast and early warning system for the upcoming semester. Several of the women had listed their occupations, their passions, and then mentioned they were also mothers. Then it was Rosalyn's turn. "Hi, I'm Rosalyn, and I've been a truck driver and a commercial fisherman, and I'm not a breeder." Everyone looked at me, silent, eyes wide. I smiled out of reflex, but suddenly it hit my brain like a smart bomb: A breeder? So that's the term now! Like dogs or horses, purely animal-species survival. (read)
Lost Magazine Messages Worth the Waiting Three years ago, a bush plane circled and swooped, landing on the beach at our Alaskan fish camp. A man stepped out, toolbox in hand, and set us to work. Together, over the next day and night, he helped us anchor an antenna on our corrugated aluminum roof, wire the linkage box, connect a mass of coiling wires to outlets and extension cords, alter the settings, re-adjust the antenna, until the magic moment: he hit the key, the light went green and it was Go. (more)
The Atlantic Monthly (audio recording) Our First Telephone(listen)
Image Journal: Art, Faith, Mystery Finding Our Names (read)
It's a Girl: Women Writers on Raising DaughtersPassing It On (read)
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Mama, PhDBody Double