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Author of The Ghosts Who Travel with Me, a memoir, and Half-Moon Scar, a novel.
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Category Archives: writing
Thirty Days Thirty Poems
Over twenty years ago I fell in love and wrote a flurry of poems because that’s what new lovers often do. But when new love settled into daily love, I returned to prose. Now I’m writing poems again, this time … Continue reading
Books to Awaken Heart and Soul
My writing brain went into hibernation during the pandemic and stayed in its cave for months after my father died. But I never stopped reading. Books have given me solace and hope these last few years; they have kept me … Continue reading
What’s Best
It’s “best of” season. Best books of the year. Movies. Songs. And because we are approaching 2020, the lists are expanding to cover the entire decade. It’s hard to resist such categorization. I keep a list of books I’ve read … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Mount St. Helens, Writers, writing
Tagged books, Literature, Mount St. Helens, Seattle, writing
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Of Books and Brownstones
As a child, I knew nothing about the east coast; what I understood about the metropolis of New York City came from Sesame Street. The show debuted in 1969, so my family was probably living in Wisconsin when I … Continue reading
Posted in LGBT, Literature, Travel, Writers, writing
Tagged books, LGBT, Literature, travel, writing
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Ursula K. Le Guin, 1929-2018
Our class took a break one sunny afternoon and hiked along the McKenzie River in the Willamette National Forest of Oregon. Our teacher, Ursula Le Guin, led the way, naming the trees, shrubs, ferns, and groundcovers. It was the summer … Continue reading
Translation
At a recent conference on literary translation, Arline and I sat in a beige hotel ballroom, listening to a panelist make painful, even nonsensical, generalizations about Panamanian literature. When the panel started taking questions, we escaped to the lobby and … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Racism, Writers, writing
Tagged books, language, Literature, Racism, teaching, writing
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A Notable Essay!
Recently, my essayist friends were posting on Facebook about the new Best American Essays, due out any day. A certain online retailer allows you to virtually page through books, and my friends were searching the back matter for their own … Continue reading
The Last Night
I’m typing at the dining room table of my cottage at the Whiteley Center on San Juan Island, where I’ve been writing for a week. This last night, the sky slowly darkens behind the darker firs, and the first evening … Continue reading
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