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Mar.16.2011 - 1:44 pm
The Biggest Storms: A Blog About Letting Go
     It was a big wave day at the Capitola jetty in Santa Cruz, and I was caught inside.  I knew I’d have to duck under five or six waves, holding on hard to my longboard and...
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Jan.27.2011 - 2:45 pm
Surprise Valley
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       This isn’t a blog about the famous authors I’ve met at Writer’s Conferences. I’ve never had the cash or, with two children, the time to attend my west coast Maui or Squaw...
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Oct.13.2010 - 8:45 am
Where the Revolution Begins: My Favorite Garden
Food, What?! supporters enjoying a farm fresh meal on the UCSC Farm
     When Jamie Oliver set out to change the eating habits of people in Huntington, West Virginia, he cut up a whole raw chicken in front of a group of school children. He started...
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Jan.06.2010 - 11:55 am
My Work: New Year's Day Baby
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On the eve of his fifteenth year, our autistic son Eliot’s math was still shaky. “Tonight it’s 2009,” I told him, explaining not for the first time the significance of the...
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Jan.07.2010 - 4:31 pm
In response to: The Decade So Bad It Shall Remain Nameless...
I loved this. thanks for
I loved this. thanks for helping me ring in the new year with some good writing and some laughs as well.
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About Victoria

Victoria Tatum received her MFA from San Francisco State, and in 2006 her novel, The Virgin's Children, was published with Rain Books (which is no longer.) She is currently finishing two memoirs, Fly-Fishing the Indian Pools: Searching for Paradise Among the...
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Victoria’s Favorite Books

East of Eden, John Steinbeck; Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner; The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, Louise Erdrich; Geography of the Heart,...