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Rules for Love
I am away at grad school, an all-encompassing adventure that I am halfway through with. I am pursuing a MFA through Goddard College and each semester we meet on the shores of Puget Sound at Port...
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Another Good Day To Be Alive
Three hours into my second day of skiing I already needed a break. It was a powder day, but here in the Pacific Northwest “powder” is still heavy, requiring effort to get back up if you go down. I...
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Touching The Vein
A friend had an opportunity to read her writing aloud at our MFA residency. She is well liked and outgoing and we were familiar with her story. There should have been no surprises; it should have...
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Mother’s Milk
MOTHER’S MILK “I created Mother’s Milk as an examination of how we see our mother’s body. Most are uncomfortable or even disgusted by the thought, but when I look at my mother I see evidence of her...
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The Day Every Girl Dreams Of – Reading
The following is my Goddard MFA graduate reading given July 2013 in Port Townsend, Wa. This is an excerpt from my memoir These Are Not Secrets, the story of a young poverty-stricken mother who makes a...
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A Matter of Degrees
The high temperature for the day had been below zero when my twenty-four year old daughter wrote the above Facebook post. She was in Chicago on a New Years vacation layover before returning to her...
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Life Is All About the Rally : On Hangovers and Hangups
ral·ly verb 1.a : a mustering of scattered forces to renew an effort b : a summoning up of strength or courage after weakness or dejection c : a renewed offensive My twenty-one year old son Eric...
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To Want, To Dream, To Achieve
I bought an airplane ticket to Ireland today. I am a “big ideas” kind of girl. When something grabs my fancy, I am all over it, but as they say,the devil is in the details which often prove...
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Choosing Flow over Fear: On Faith and Decisions
My household is in a whirlwind of change right now. My partner’s job has shifted along with his commitment to the company he has worked for over 15. The job I was hired to do is wrapping up, and while...
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I Wouldn’t Want You to Think….
I have a secret. I’ve been told to keep quiet about it. Not that I didn’t already know that I should. After all, she said, you wouldn’t want them to think… It is true. I wouldn’t want you to. Here’s...
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Graignagower
The road that wound through a narrow gap between two mountains clung to a steep heather covered rise on one side and fell away at a dizzying pitch on the other. There were few homes along the miles of...
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