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I’ve been trying to write life down forever, in what I’ve overheard: in stories, in novels, and in poems. I've worked with labor unions and many non-profits, curated exhibits, and taught many writing classes about stories and what makes them good.


All of us

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Stories and Poems Along Route 17

All of Us is about people in a small town in upstate New York - different, even alien, from one another, often politically at odds, yet managing to live in peace, side by side. Seen through the lens of a warm-hearted narrator with an eye for a good story and a good laugh, All of Us is a unique tribute to rural upstate New York - a funny Spoon River Anthology, a northern relative of Eudora Welty's Why I Live at the PO.