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- Nov 7, 2022
- 9 min
John Adcox: Complete
Can fantasy be myth? Mythopoeia and The Lord of the Rings In June of 1999, I traveled to England for the first time. After a few days in...


- Nov 5, 2022
- 3 min
Peter Marlton: The Power of Love
I’ve been a public defender in Seattle for twenty-two years, tried many adult and juvenile cases, and negotiated plea agreements more...


- Nov 2, 2022
- 4 min
Judith Arnold: First-Rate Second-Borns
I often wondered whether my sons read up on birth order theory while still in the womb. Embodying the theory, my first-born has always...


- Sep 14, 2022
- 4 min
Tom Avitabile: The Deep Fakery Bakery
Way, way, back in 1981 B.C. (before cellphones), Michael Crichton, who brought us Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain, dabbled in a...


- Sep 8, 2022
- 5 min
Peter Marlton: Crazy Job Vignettes
I can’t count the number of times I’ve been on job interviews, and on many of them I would’ve been crushed if I got hired. I’ve worked in...


- Sep 6, 2022
- 7 min
Peter Marlton: Introduction to the Inexplicable
On Friday, November 22, 1963, about a month before my sixth birthday, I was playing with my favorite little yellow tractors on a small...


- Aug 24, 2022
- 8 min
Craig Lancaster: Still Fighting It
When I was nine years old, my stepfather picked me up from school one day and took me to a junkyard somewhere between downtown Fort...


- Aug 17, 2022
- 2 min
Therésè: Liquid Gold
“A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water” – Eleanor Roosevelt. Did you know that an...