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Megan Mayhew Bergman

Megan Mayhew Bergman is the author of the story collection “Birds of a Lesser Paradise”

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“It would be easy to be pessimistic, but pessimism has never changed the world”: Life lessons from a global poverty hero

Megan Mayhew Bergman

Our DIY euthanasia: Letting go of the dog who rescued us

Megan Mayhew Bergman
Michael Pollan (<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/user_view.php?id=2950194'>firemanYU</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>/Salon)

Democracy needs gardeners! My liberating DIY revolution

Megan Mayhew Bergman
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Take this, conservative Facebook friends! (Wait, now I feel bad): Must I be the environmentalist you can’t take to dinner

Megan Mayhew Bergman
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Cancer, animal cruelty, feminism: So why can’t I quit using makeup?

Megan Mayhew Bergman
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Turkey-less on Turkey Day: The vegetarian’s Thanksgiving struggle

Megan Mayhew Bergman
Weight-lifter Holley Mangold, of the United States, trains in preparation for the start of the 2012 Summer Olympics (AP/Hassan Ammar)

My amazing Olympics insight

Megan Mayhew Bergman

Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron

Megan Mayhew Bergman