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I tested positive for COVID-19 on March 5, 2023. According to recent reports, the pandemic began on March 11, 2020. I made it almost three years before contracting the virus. On March 12, I tested positive again, so on day … Continue reading →

I don’t make them. I mean I do, but then I quickly abandon them. I tell everyone I don’t make them so I don’t have to tell them I’ve already quit doing whatever I promised myself I wouldn’t do, or … Continue reading →

Happy to have this post up on So to Speak.

After owning this blog for I don’t know how many years, I’ve finally added a new page, Publications, which includes the following sub-sections:

One month away from returning to teaching, and I’m feeling okay with my accomplishments. I completed my chapbook manuscript. Here’s the synopsis: Unraveling disentangles the strands of the narrator’s life in order to reveal a woman’s capacity to unknot pesky … Continue reading →

You didn’t make it to 60. I’m still in shock that you’re gone, though it’s been 2 months. Poof. Gone from the world. Nothing left. No children, no pets, no written words, very few photos and none recent, no sounds … Continue reading →

Happy to have this post up on Brevity Blog.

Today I am 60 years old. I’m tucked away in a cabin amidst the redwoods halfway between Eureka and Arcata, California. I slept for 10 hours last night. Only waking when the flickers pecked at the side of the house. … Continue reading →

from sometime in July: well at least up early-ish, compared to every other day in July thus far. it’s been a struggle to shift from work mode to sabbatical mode this time around, though honestly I cannot remember the last … Continue reading →

Title “Unraveled; or the Unraveling accomplished” Abstract My third sabbatical brings to fruition my creative non-fiction collection, Unraveling. A compilation of twelve previously-published essays and several unpublished ones, this book unravels the strands of a life spent “working it out”— … Continue reading →