“Here she comes, running, . . . off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a live woman.”
–Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Having recently moved east of my Eden, from the Pacific Ocean to the Appalachian Mountains, south of the Mason-Dixon line from Northern California, from sixteen years of unyielding dedication to Title-I public schools to an unexpectedly early retirement, from earning a paycheck since I was fourteen-and-a-half years old and working up to three jobs in order to…
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Ms. Z is a veteran schoolteacher, a freelance writer/editor, and full-time working mother again, after accepting a supporting role at her child’s school. She recently moved from the San Francisco Bay to the Appalachian Mountains, where she is learning to live in the woods with bears as well as to enjoy the regular exercises of…
In What They Called Their Shangri-La
I think it was in 1957, when my paternal grandparents retired from the U.S. Army, after serving throughout the continental U.S. as well as in Guam, Japan, and Germany. The license plates still hanging in the garage attest to these milestones of their careers. Photographed, here, is their mid-century home in California, where they raised…
