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		<title>Laying at the Bedside of Silly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dad is smacking his gums right now with a childlike glee, not because he&#8217;s losing his marbles but because he&#8217;s checking in on the systems that still work. More pieces have fallen off; he&#8217;s driving ...]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Charter Members of the Charles Moone Appreciation Society,</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve gotten the word from on high (his docs, since no other authority holds much water for Dad) that we&#8217;re nearing the end of the race. Which we knew, but it&#8217;s been officially annointed by ...]]></description>
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		<title>Things Fall Apart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of Dad&#8217;s oldest and dearest friends Betsy was visiting from New York when my brother Chris, my husband and I went to Dad&#8217;s house to do some chores  for him. Dad  had ...]]></description>
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		<title>Choosing How the Sun Goes Down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The days are balmy after an intolerably late start to summer. Portlanders, usually sanguine about their weather, have been twitchy and edgy, all chatty conversations winding inevitably to our hopes for a summer to finally ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Gossip Pages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or: A Few Thing I Learned in New York About Writers For The Nervous Breakdown, with Greater or Lesser Emphasis on The Truth. 
The last time I was in New York I had morning sickness ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Scales Fell From My Eyes; They Were Made of Plastic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These days, perhaps one of the most indelible images in my mind is of a dead sea bird, not covered in oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster, but whose rotting carcass is filled with bottle ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Road to Hell is Paved with Petrochemicals</title>
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Mr. McGuire: Plastics.
&#8211;The Graduate, 1967



 

Before British Petroleum botched the most spectacular oil disaster in the history of our petro-based culture [addendum: the most spectacularly publicized oil disaster: turns  out NIGERIA  HAS IT ...]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Heaven in the El &#8216;Ortez</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a different life my husband and I were in the dank center of a rock band who had hit it big.
Screwy and the Pin-ups* was at the height of its draw. And we, our ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Problem With Dying</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We find ourselves at sea with the imprecision of language in medical jargon. Scrap it and start over. ]]></description>
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		<title>A Field of Narrowing Options</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With PSA numbers rising and the field of medical options narrowing, it's tough to take a look at the situation. This writing thing isn't for the faint of heart. ]]></description>
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