Clare B. Dunkle

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Clare B. Dunkle


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in Fort Worth, TX, The United States
June 11, 1964

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I was born Clare Buckalew in Fort Worth, Texas, and grew up in Denton, Texas, a city north of Dallas. I earned my B.A. in Russian with a minor in Latin from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. After graduating from Indiana University with a master's degree in library science, I came back to San Antonio to work when my husband, Joe, joined the engineering staff at Kelly Air Force Base. I earned tenure as the monographs cataloger at Trinity University's Coates Library from 1990 to 1999; then I left the library to homeschool my two daughters, Valerie and Elena. My family moved to Germany in 2000, and we lived for seven years in the Rheinland Pfalz region, not far from the old Roman city of Trier. We returned to San Antonio in the summer ...more

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Taking the “Objective” Approach

Prison cell on Alcatraz Island, San Francisco, California

My memoir, Hope and Other Luxuries, tells about my attempts to cope with my daughter Elena’s anorexia nervosa. But it also tells the story of my creative life from the beginning of my writing career. I’ve decided to share those sections of my memoir that deal with creativity, writing, and publishing here on my blog.


This excerpt begins on page 434. It highlights the danger of taking on

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“Being a writer means crying over the sad parts, even though you already know it’s going to be okay.”
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“Em, I am trying to have an important conversation!" shouted Seylin. "I will not change into a cat!”
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