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My WorksBORN UNDER AN ASSUMED NAME: The Memoir of a Cold War Spy's Daughter
To be published by Potomac Books, January 2012 A memoir of my childhood as the daughter of a covert CIA officer “Caring for Mom, Mum and Maman”
The Washington Post, January 10, 2010. A look at how older people’s quality of life is shaped by their governments’ health care policies. “Throwing the Bums Out, Within and Without,”
The Washington Post, March 30, 2008 A celebration of Argentina’s beauty—and an interweaving of Argentina’s political history with my own evolution. BREAD OF THREE RIVERS: THE STORY OF A FRENCH LOAF
Beacon Press, 2001. The stories of the baker, wheat farmer, water technicians, sea salt farmers, and yeast cultivators whose labor contributes to the creation of a delicious French village loaf. “The Tyranny of Optimism”
Aspen Daily News, April 11, 2007 How the American penchant for and insistence upon blindered optimism can undermine American foreign policy. A case for measured pessimism, especially in presidents. "Rainlight"
UNROOTED CHILDHOODS, Intercultural Press, 2004. A memoir of the new-found delights of an American girl plunked down in The Netherlands. "Rowing to Leiden"
SOUTHWEST REVIEW, Volume 87, Numbers 2&3, 2002. A story of the push-and-pull at the heart of the mother-daughter relationship. DUSK ON THE CAMPO: A JOURNEY IN PATAGONIA
Henry Holt, 1991. An intimate portrait of the lives of the sheep ranchers of Patagonia and their forbidding land. OF MANY LANDS:JOURNAL OF A TRAVELING CHILDHOOD
Foreign Service Youth Foundation, 1997. A memoir and writing workbook for people raised abroad. "Longing for America: Notes from a Traveling Childhood"
NOTES FROM A TRAVELING CHILDHOOD, Foreign Service Youth Foundation, 1994. Thoughts on the appetite for the elixir of other lands--and the longing for home--that inhabits the heart of a child raised across seas. "Prejudice Abroad: Kids and Cashmere in Paris"
Essay produced by MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO, 2002. A comment on the mix of ethnocentrism and passion that arises during travel abroad. "Life and Death in Patagonia: Encounters Along the Road"
ASCENT, Vol. 27(2), Winter 2003. Tales of wild joy and sorrow from a journey through some of the bleakest land on earth. "The Letter on the Cattlegate: A Paean to Neediness"
COMMON BOUNDARY MAGAZINE, Nov/Dec 1997, and CATHOLIC DIGEST, Fall 1998. An essay about human need and how it brings us all together. |
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