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Physical Work
At our family’s Ben Franklin store, I often worked in the back, in the stock room. That was where we unloaded the Tuesday shipment and used a box cutter to open big cardboard boxes. We unpacked dime store merchandise: pots and pans, toys, toiletries,… Continue Reading “Physical Work”
Time of the Month Club: Indignity Prevention
Is there possibly a cruder phrase than ‘she’s on the rag?’ We hear it now as a nasty, sexist reference but it wasn’t all that long ago that this was a woman’s monthly reality. My mother told me that when she was a teenager growing… Continue Reading “Time of the Month Club: Indignity Prevention”
Time of the Month Club: Indignity Prevention
Is there possibly a cruder phrase than ‘she’s on the rag?’ I don’t think so. We hear it now as a nasty, sexist reference but it wasn’t all that long ago that this was a woman’s monthly reality. My mother told me that when she… Continue Reading “Time of the Month Club: Indignity Prevention”
Snow Door | wisconsinacademy.org
Listen to Jan read her essay “Billy” presented on WUWM’s Lake Effect
Jan’s essay “At the Breakfast Bar” on WUWM Lake Effect
Jan’s essay “The Parish Hall,” on WUWM Lake Effect
“Fury Cannot Touch Me,” Modern Love, NYT, 9/29/11
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