Jane Devin

In so many ways, Kate McLaughlin’s life was the American ideal. Married to her high school sweetheart, Mark, both she and her husband pursued their academic and career goals. As Mark began to climb the corporate ladder, Kate taught school and attended graduate classes.  The couple soon purchased their first home, and had their first child, [...]

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I SING the Body electric;
The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them;
They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the Soul. — Walt Whitman
Under different circumstances, I believe my mother might have become an interior [...]

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I was a free man in Paris, I felt unfettered and alive. Nobody was calling me up for favors, no ones future to decide. You know I’d go back there tomorrow, but for the work I’ve taken on, stoking the star maker machinery behind the popular song. - Joni Mitchell, “Free Man in Paris”.
I. [...]

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