We’ve covered ultra short SF stories. Now, to memoirs. The specific topic is green memoirs but I think any memoir will do. Mine: Courtyard: a communal herb garden. Gone.

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Sisters and brothers and everyone in between, welcome to the Church of John!  [insert organ riff] One of the great blessing of being a skeptic is that you can find your scripture anywhere. Emily Dickinson, Bad Religion, William Gibson and Joss Whedon are my prophets. When I was lost in the darkness of religious faith, [...]

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Because they compact revelations into a glance.  This one’s called “How it Works”: This comic is more eloquent than any treatise I can write on the power of stereotypes (and of sexism in particular). I’m thinking of how many times someone’s annoyed me with their going 45mph down the 405.  As I pass them, I [...]

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