The Book
Carrying On
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It’s all true. Even the parts that never happened.
Writes memoir and teaches the craft of telling the truth, from the Pacific Northwest.
Craft essay · Hippocampus Magazine · April 2026
The Things I Carried Out of Suburbia: Using Classic Structure to Write Memoir
On borrowing the vignette structure of Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried as the container for a memoir that refuses a standard narrative arc, and why story-truth can say what the facts can’t.
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Essays
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Two roles, one practice
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