Category: Non-Fiction

Finding strength in painful fragility

June 24, 2014 Brody No Comments

This column appeared in The Herald-Sun in June 2014: A baccarat crystal knob seems an unlikely nemesis. But that changes when your hands are fused into permanent fists. Megan Barron realized too late – about the time the stall door clicked shut – that she couldn’t manipulate the knob. She was in a fancy restaurant…

Journalism, Non-Fiction, Sample Columns

The man’s always been there

June 13, 2014 Brody No Comments

This column appeared in The Herald-Sun in June 2014: The first time Mom introduced us to him, he likes to joke, “she claimed you were circus dwarves.” Not too long after that, Tom Berger became stepfather to me and my brother, Don. I don’t know if he was ready to be a father. I certainly…

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Hello Kitty? Hello, parental camaraderie

June 6, 2014 Brody No Comments

This column appeared in The Herald-Sun in June 2014: “Ha-ha!” I was walking down Club Boulevard in front of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, pushing John Michael in the jogging stroller. I glanced to my left at the source of the laughter: A blond-haired man in his 20s, head poking out the…

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Two war stories, both of D-Day

June 5, 2014June 5, 2014 Brody No Comments

The following article that I wrote appeared in the St. Petersburg Times on June 5, 1994, in honor of the 50th anniversary of D-Day: Villagers cried out “Liberate! Liberate!” when the smelly, unshaven U.S. paratrooper limped into town alone. Private Joe Clancy, a member of the 82nd Airborne’s 307th Engineers, warned them that their celebration…

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