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Jim Blackwood Jr.

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Jim Blackwood, Jr. grew up in the Southern California desert and lived on both sides of the country before settling in Portland, Oregon. He was a successful information systems manager and senior policy director for a Portland city commissioner.

Jim embarked on his third career as a full-time writer in 2017. In 2019, he published his memoir "Am I Cured Yet? My Wonderful Life with PTSD and Panic Disorder." Always an essayist, in 2020, Jim released a new work written during the pandemic. "24 Directions at Once: Dispatches from the COVID-19 Lockdown" is a collection of essays that remind us how life, in all its fullness, has gone on during the quarantine. Jim is also a contributor to the digital health site TheMighty.com.

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The quiet here is an illusion. I have been busy writing fiction. After so many essays about my real world, there has been some pandemic sanity in creating fictional worlds and living in them for weeks at a time. I have a story off to the Pacific Northwest Writers' Association annual contest and this week have submitted a new science fiction piece to a magazine. Some of the 15 stories I have writte

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Man's Search for Meaning

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Coyote: The Dramatic Lives of Sam Shepard

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Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

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― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Timequake

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