Essays and Other True Stories

essays?! —yuck!

The Green Limousine: How We Got By Before SUVs
2000 (Published in Andrei Codrescu’s e-journal Exquisite Corpse, Issue 7)

Cross-Examining Criminal Justice
Like dunking witches to see if they float. 2000

Recovering My Father: History in Pictures
Be warned — it’s not a warm fuzzy. 2000

The Draft Board and Me: or, How “Alice’s Restaurant” Saved My Life
2000

When Brooks Died: A Story You Won’t Get on ER
My wife works in a real emergency department. 1999

July 27th
Questioning the “news.” 1998

Muleskinner Blues
(Published in The Small Farmers’ Journal, Spring ’96.) 1990

The Five-hundred-Dollar Phone Call
$500 cash, mind you. Live and learn. 1996

The Arkansas Massacre
Far from help, in the Arkansas woods. 1994

The Cross
You tell me what it means. 1996

Duck Eggs
I never liked him. 1994 (names changed)

Lost, Perplexed, and Other Orientations
Lost in the woods. 1996

Memory and Water
Fire, water, a boat, and a wood cookstove. 1992

Wheat Harvest
It happened one time. 1992

Whose Place is This?
Reassigning price-tags. 1993