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15 Women & Crim. Just. 1 (2003-2004)

handle is hein.journals/wwcj15 and id is 1 raw text is: Living in The Land of Hope and Dreams Mary K. Stohr YAKIMA, PULLMAN, CRATER LAKE AND SEATTLE: GROWING UP IN THE NIRVANAS OF THE NORTHWEST Someone once said that self-reflection is good for the soul and that may be so, but it also creates anxiety when it takes a written form that will be read by one's peers. Therefore, it is with humility, and some trepidation, that I describe important events in my life in the hopes that my experience may be of some use to others. As much of what we are is social context, social context, social con- text, I'll begin this piece by describing where I come from in the belief that this largely explains who I've become. I was raised in Yakima, Washington, in a large, primarily Irish Catholic, family; I am the third oldest of eight children. In many ways my childhood was idyllic in that my parents loved all their children well and obviously, we grew up near and amongst an extended family and we lived in the country in the midst of lush, irrigated apple, cherry, pear and peach orchards, surrounded by sage brush desert hills. Our parents gave us much freedom to run wild among those hills and orchards. They also ensured that we were sensitized to important elements of life on earth. Thus, we co-existed with other species as we had all kinds of farm animals, usually as pets (I even had Shetland ponies and a Pinto horse). In the warmer months we went on Sunday picnics in the moun- tains where the kids were allowed to run through the forests and swim in rivers. We also went to Catholic schools, which were rigorous academi- cally. We were white children in a predominantly white state that fa- vored this status in the 1960s and 70s. My parents always told us we could become anything we wished and they strongly pushed education as a vehicle for achieving success. So I was blessed and privileged in Women & Criminal Justice, Vol. 15(1) 2003 http://www.haworthpress.com/store/product.asp?sku=JO 12 © 2003 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved. 10.1300/J012v15n01 01 1

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