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The Family Tools (Christmas in a Log Cabin)

(A holiday tale first published in the late 1990s. Some of it is true.) The Unabomber and I had at least one trait in common. He hated Industrial Society so thoroughly that he never learned how to use tools well … Continue reading

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Who Was My Mother?

(December 13th is my birthday. Really, it should be my mother’s day. Here’s the woman who became “My Late Mother as a Ruffed Grouse.”) Born Anne Fletcher in 1926 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but Nancy Nixon by the time I arrived, … Continue reading

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