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Earth Day is an Essay

In my MFA program, creative nonfiction writers like myself were taught all about the origin of the essay — how its pioneer, Michel de Montaigne, coined the term from the …

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On Progression of the Species: Some Earth Day Notes

It’s the Saturday before Earth Day in downtown Bend, and it looks like I’ve missed the Procession of the Species parade.  The butterfly-winged woman and the horse-headed man have long …

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