“A Modern Beacon of Justice,” Arizona Attorney Magazine
By Lori DeBoer This article was originally published in the October 2000 edition of Arizona Attorney as “Sandra Day O’Connor Federal Building and Courthouse: A Modern Beacon of Justice.” You can read the whole story by clicking HERE. When you...“Staying Afloat,” Black Enterprise
“Staying Afloat: Strategies for Surviving a Cash Flow Crisis,” was published in the May 1, 2000, edition of Black Enterprise. You can read the article...“To Hear Her Story Told,” Pithead Chapel
By Lori DeBoer When my son was a toddler, I spent a week in the summer writing program offered by Naropa University. My group was instructed by Bobbie Louise Hawkins, esteemed poet and essayist. I wrote an essay under her direction but it was a little far afoot,...“The Roots of Creative Nonfiction,” Creative Nonfiction Special Issue
by Lori DeBoer This essay originally appeared in a special edition of the literary magazine Creative Nonfiction, A Million Little Choices: The ABCS of CNF A sixteen-year-old boy, lousy with lust and a certain lassitude, falls in with a fast crowd and, one evening,...“Childish Things” Published in Mamaphonic Anthology
Read an excerpt: “I correspond with some members of a group of people afflicted with PPH. One woman lives on a ranch in some Western state, more than an hour’s drive from a doctor, longer from a hospital. She blew a hole in her heart giving birth. The baby is...“La Grande Orange: Here Comes the Neighborhood,” Arizona Food and Lifestyles
by Lori DeBoer Originally published in Arizona Food & Lifestyles, April/May 2003, pp 20-22. La Grande Orange rises out from the intersection of 40th Street and Campbell like an oasis in the desert. You might mistake it for a mirage in an urban landscape more given...“Twenty-Five Random Things About Me” is Finalist in Glimmer Train Fiction Open
By Lori DeBoer I was visiting Manitou Springs once with a friend when we happened upon a shrine tucked away near an abandoned spring. It was dedicated to a teenager who had been killed by a transient. I could not get this girl’s story out of my head. How could...“Swing King: The Legend of Frankie Manning,” American Visions Magazine
“Swing King: The Legend of Frankie Manning,” was published in American Visions Magazine in October/November 2000.