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Day 5: Peace Train
-Day 5 of this Amtrak Residency. Greetings from just outside Moab, Utah, where I am now at mile 2819 of this…
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Day 4: Soul Train
-Day 4 of this Amtrak Residency. Greetings from just outside Galesburg, Illinois, where I am now at mile 1572 of this…
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Day 3: At a Siding (II.)
-Day 3 of this Amtrak Residency. Greetings from Bloomington, Indiana, where I am, again, at mile 1190 of this 7298 mile…
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Day 2: At a Siding, (I.)
-Day 2 of this Amtrak Residency. Greetings from Bloomington, Indiana, where I am at mile 1190 of this 7298 mile…
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Day 1: Mystery Train
-Greetings from Albany, New York. It’s just after 6 PM, and we’re pausing here while the Boston train joins up…
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Day 0: The Love Train
-Greetings, culture lovers (as Mr. Know-It-All used to say). I’ll be departing this Saturday, November 1, from Portland, Maine, for…
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Jennifer Finney Boylan chosen as one of 24 inaugural “Amtrak Residency” writers.
-Wait, wait. I thought they said “trains-gender.” I was misinformed! Does this mean I still have to go? I am…
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Having a Father who Became a Woman Helped Make My Sons into Better Men
-This is a piece I wrote for the Advocate–my first for them–about the new series, TRANSPARENT, and about being a…
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Jeffrey Tambor on TODAY, with a shout-out to JFB
-I don’t think I can imbed this video, but here’s the link. It’s a snip from the TODAY show on…
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Sturm und Drang
-Here’s a column of mine that appeared in the Washington Post on September 21, 2014, about the burdens and blessings…