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Press for WIFE AND WAR: THE MEMOIR
- "She's Lucky" in Stars & Stripes 11/7/2013
- Barrington Author Shares Her Story Tonight 9/11/14
- Give the gift of military history
- How to Help War Vets Struggling with Emotional Numbing 2/17/2015
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- Peter Molin on Time Now 9/28/14
- The Barrington Patch 9/10/2013
- The Barrington Times 9/10/2013
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- The Waiting: 'Stateside,' 'Wife and War," and the Hale Koa
- These Almost Widows-Amalie Flynn's Wife and War 10/2/14
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- America the Gun in Atticus Review 10 / 13 / 2014
- Excerpt in STARS & STRIPES 11/7/2013
- Excerpt on Blogs of War 10/16/2013
- Excerpt on Medium / Words After War
- Excerpt on Words After War 2/4/2014
- Integra Center 11/20/2013
- LINE on 3 Quarks Daily 3/29/2012
- NO on Speaking of Apraxia 2/3/2014
- The New York Times 8/19/2012
- The New York Times At War 11/15/2010
- The New York Times At War 11/23/2011
- The New York Times At War 3/1/2011
- TIME 9/28/2011
- Wife in The Literary Review 5 / 2014
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Tag Archives: VBIED
Matter
My older son is looking For the quotient, Because he is doing math And it is a problem Of division, And I tell him how the total Number can be divided into Parts And how, sometimes, sometimes There is a … Continue reading
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Structure
My son is sitting At the kitchen table Talking about the textual structures He learned about in school, or how There is description and sequencing Or cause and effect and Problem and solution, And how sometimes they overlap, Overlap on … Continue reading
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Grenade
We are awake Still and Sitting in the dark Of our living room, Talking about it Again, About getting out or staying in, In the military, How we are in the military And I want to get out. And we … Continue reading
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Needles
I tell my husband how I saw needles, Hypodermic and laying, On the side of the road, Dumped there from a trash can Overturned on trash day. Which side, my husband asks me, And he is looking at our bed, … Continue reading
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Distance
On my computer there are photographs Of a refugee camp in Kabul, A place where people go When they flee war And become internally displaced, And I am looking at them, The photographs, The people, the camps, huts made out … Continue reading
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Free
Today it is the Fourth of July, And when my son finds me In the hallway, asking why, I tell him about independence And how it means being free. But I already know, how Tonight we will walk down Dark … Continue reading
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Pronoun
I am sitting in my station wagon, Thinking about pronouns, or how When my husband came home, The men from Afghanistan would Write my husband letters, saying, Come back, How they would ask him, To bring his wife, his children, … Continue reading
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