Mary's Writings
(Note: the ones referenced in red are available in toto
- or as excerpts - on this website, for you to look at!)
 
 
REVIEWS (on http://www.spinninglobe.net/maryswritings.htm):
 
A Life in School: Or What the Teacher Learned, by Jane Tompkins
Amazing Grace, by Jonathan Kozol
Changing Lives: Voices for a School that Works, by Jane Day
Daisy Sutra: Conversations with my Dog, by Helen Weaver
Fury on Earth: A Biography of Wilhelm Reich, by Myron Sharaf," Review, Energy and Character, Spring, 1986.
How Like an Angel Came I Down: Conversations with Children on the Gospels, edited by Alice O. Howell
May You Never Stop Dancing: A Professor's Letters to his Daughter, By John Lawry
The Underground History of American Education, by John Taylor Gatto: actually, a review of The Empty Child, John's name for a previous version of Underground.
PUBLICATIONS:
Articles:

My Ashfield: a child's history of the small hilltown of Ashfield, Massachusetts

Death by fire at Montségur, a past life account of life at the end of the 13th century, during the "Albigensian Crusade"
On Glastonbury Tor, a strange adventure
"Tribute to Fritz Perls," Energy and Character, the Journal of Biosynthesis, Abbotsbury, Dorset, England, May, 1971.
"Reality and the Rose Curtain; Owning Your Anger," New Schools Exchange Newsletter, November, 1972.
"The Free School Controversy: Letter From America," Energy and Character, January, 1973.
"Shoestring School," Journal of Orgonomy, New York, May, 1977.
"A Social and Political Reassessment: the Work of Wilhelm Reich Today," Energy and Character, June, 1978.
"The Free School Community," Offshoots of Orgonomy, New York, Spring, 1982.
"La Clinique de Michel Odent," Practicing Midwife, Summertown, TN, 1987.
"Obstetrical Nursing During the Forties," The Birth Gazette, Summertown, TN, 1989.
"Whaddya Mean, Free?" Holistic Education Review, Greenfield, MA, Summer, 1988 (award-winning issue).
 
BOOKS:
As author:
Jessica Dragonette's Fiery Breath, Down-to-Earth Books, Albany, NY, 1974.
Love Songs for the Irishwoman, Down-to-Earth Books, Albany, NY, 1974.
Rushing to Eva, Down-to-Earth Books, Albany, NY, 1975.
Looking For One's Shadow at Noon, vols. 1 and 2, Down-to-Earth Books, Albany, NY, 1984; 1993.
The Flying Bird Brings the Message, Down-to-Earth Books, Albany, NY, 1993.
India Journal, Down-to-Earth Books, Albany, NY, 1993.
 
As editor:
The World's Goin' to End at Loonchtime, Down-to-Earth Books, Albany, NY, 1993.
Challenging the Giant, the Best of SKOLE, the Journal of Alternative Education, volumes I-IV, Down-to-Earth Books, Albany, NY, 1992; 94; 96; 99.
 
PERIODICALS:
As editor:
SKOLE, the Journal of Alternative Education, 1985-1999.
The Journal of Family Life, 1994-2000.