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Kathryn Kefauver Goldberg

Kathryn Kefauver Goldberg’s writing has been published in The New York Times, Alaska Quarterly Review, and The Gettysburg Review. She has traveled to Australia, China, and Laos, and now lives with her husband and a chipper Bichon puppy in Berkeley, California, where she is working on a memoir.

— From September 2011
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

It Takes A Village To Please My Mother

“Don’t worry about taking care of me,” my mother liked to say every year as her birthday approached. “You’ve already trained me not to expect anything.” This because once, right after the divorce, my father had taken my sister and me to the beach on her birthday week.

September 2011
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Where Water Comes From

I felt a jolt. Since my father had left, no one had said the word sadness. I had heard the words stingy and schmuck, but sadness seemed obscene, even more taboo than the topic of sex. Sadness was like my period, something that came regularly, to be borne in silence.

November 2008
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