Sample essays by Christie Gorsline

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Byline Magazine Contest Awards:

"Encounters", first place article, April, 2006 

"Two Women Who Cared", special honorable mention, March 2006

"Mourning a Man I Never Met", honorable mention, May 2006

NPR Essays:

"Souls", read on NPR (Boise State Radio) on December 20, 2005 and July 25, 2006.  Listen to Christie on NPR:  click here.

"Voluntarily Uninsured", read on NPR (Boise State Radio) on October 3, 2006.  Listen to Christie on NPR:  click here.

In Print:

"Raging Gracefully", smart women on life, love, and coming into your own, an anthology of engaging and humorous ways to approach life after age 50. 

"PFC Owens", published in  The Idaho Statesman on January 11, 2004 and The Oregonian February 12, 2004

"We Did It:  Life on the Ocean", published in Living Aboard, January, 2005.

"Lessons Learned: Things", published in Living Aboard, March, 2004.

"We Did It:  Dropping Out", published in Living Aboard, September 2003.

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