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Meg Robson Mahoney

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Mother, May I?

Together we reasoned her slips away, but that couldn’t save the names of plants she’d known or the twists of plot in a book. This is not a story about dementia, but I can’t leave the dementia out. It played a role in how I caught my own reflection in the mirror of family.

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Nominated for Best of the Net 2021; awarded Best Non-Fiction, Write on the Sound 2020

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In sight of Croagh Patrick

First thing I checked each morning, out the upstairs window facing west: Can we see Croagh Patrick? Is its elegant triangle on the horizon? Do shrubs point their shadows across the fields in its direction? Or is it obscured by the weather?

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A Man of Morocco

This pre-pandemic story was honored as best non-fiction and printed by the Nassau Review for distribution in May of 2020, but wound up locked in a closet when New York shut down and the journal lost its editor and staff. Here it is, harking back to former times of travel…

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I’m a writer, currently working on a memoir about discovering that the silence and acquiescence I learned growing up female lay in wait to destroy my well-being and marriage. And about my fight to change.

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I was a dancer, taught dance in public schools, and advocated for arts in education.

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Recent forays into territories unknown have me cruising the waters of western Washington with my husband and occasionally seafaring cat.

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