Reader & Writer
Flora Literary is running a small prose poem I wrote around the theme of regret. It starts as a list but then addresses certain people I feel I’ve wronged or short-shrifted—bringing on latent regrets. Afterthoughts. Self-examination. What-ifs and if onlys. Hindsight is 20-20, as they say. And, it is the heart that reminds us To... Continue Reading →
Check out Issue 7 of Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality & the Arts https://pensivejournal.com/ Pensive-Issue-7.pdf (pensivejournal.com) Pensive is out of the Center for Spirituality, Dialogue, and Service at Northeastern University. The journal is available after Nov. 28th for purchase or click on the cover at the website to browse. The story is entitled Little Norway.... Continue Reading →
new work out at Teach. Write Journal called Tim Tintera's Thesaurus, you can read online https://teachwritejournal.com/current-issue/ I wrote Tim Tintera's Thesaurus after seeing the battered copy sitting around on my shelf. After nearly 40 years, I still felt guilty for stealing Tim Tintera's Thesaurus, but I knew he didn't need it as much as he... Continue Reading →
new work out in a women's literary journal go to: https://adannajournal.blogspot.com/ the piece is called Keep Moving: She knew about being faithful, she knew about loyalty. She was a Hennenbacher for crying out loud. Stand by your man was the family motto. Margery credited it to her Christian upbringing. No one in her family had... Continue Reading →
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A small piece of about 100 words is now online at Instant Noodles. Peeper Pond is from my time spent in Eugene, Oregon which even then felt temporal. Somehow I knew I wasn't staying and that living was serendipitous, a way of receiving life events as amazing, new, to be savored. Because tomorrow I may... Continue Reading →
Recently I’ve had a spat of acceptances. I’m happy to announce, you can read my work, a creative nonfiction piece excerpted from my longer cnf project about cycling through the UK from top to bottom, John O’Groats in Scotland to Land’s End in Cornwall. This piece is called Life in the Midden about the mess... Continue Reading →
I have a new piece up at Random Sample Review. These latest acceptances have been vital to keeping me writing--since the break up with my agent and rejection of my nonfiction manuscript. Rejection--how it feels, these days. Anyway! I'll live n the moment with Starting Over https://randomsamplereview.com/2022/07/28/starting-over/ https://randomsamplereview.com/2022/07/28/starting-over/ Photo by Eileen Pan
My essay, "Books As Signposts in Our Life," has been published in Still Point Arts Quarterly for a special themed issue on books and book lovers! The digital edition is FREE. The print edition is full of beautiful illustrations--the price for a PRINT issue is $14.50 plus $3.95 shipping. Go here to download: https://indd.adobe.com/view/675e0ae9-707b-46a1-aadd-ecd1384592d7 “The... Continue Reading →
I’ve had an amazing acceptance of a small flash memoir piece I’ve called Starting Over which will appear in the next issue of Random Sample Review for an issue themed “Follow Your Joy”—yes, it does involve a bicycle! More importantly, it was selected by a poet Debra Stone. This is significant in that my agent is... Continue Reading →
I contributed to an article written by Alisha Haridasani Gupta of the NY Times. She is a gender writer and has tackled some big topics in Women's news lately--notably the restriction of abortion rights in many states. The genesis of my contribution was a call for submissions from the National Women's History Museum looking for "journals" or... Continue Reading →
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/03/09/cicadas-broodx-environment/ Names Brood X, the last time they appeared in hordes was in 2004. In a few months these monstrous looking bugs will burrow out of their 17-year hiatus and attach themselves to Everything. They will be everywhere, leaving exoskeletons and nesting in trees. If you miss seeing them—don’t worry—you will hear them as the... Continue Reading →
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