In the latest memoir installment, I look back at my marriage to Julia.
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Looking Back at a Lifetime Together
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Early Scenes from a Marriage
My memoir continued, this time looking at my relationship with Julia during our grad school years in Atlanta.
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On Lawrence and a Sexual Awakening
In my latest life in literature installment, I look at the impact of D.H. Lawrence on my college relationship with my future wife.
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Discovering Parental Love Letters
Discovering my parents’ love letters, I discover they foreshadow my own relationship with Julia. Both involved a lot of poetry
One Man Loved the Pilgrim Soul in You
In which I explain how Yeats’s “When You Are Old and Gray” frames the dedication that opens my book.
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A Swift Birthday Poem for Julia
In which I use one of Swift’s birthday poems to celebrate my Julia’s birthday.
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The Joys of August Blackberries
In an essay written 12 years ago, I announce a special event with a backdrop of Mary Oliver’s blackberries.
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