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Came Across This While Looking For Something Else--
I was looking for a review I remember writing way back, about Jenny Offill’s first novel, Last Things. So long ago. It’s in the Oregonian archives, and I’ll track it down…but on the way I stumbled across this review of Folly. Huge thank you...
Thank You!
The Monicas, Saying Goodnight!
So great to see the writers who made it to the Portland Writers’ Mixer/Social, last night! I had a blast, and you all warm my heart.
I started writing this as a shout-out to a couple of moments that crack...
White Space is a Thing
My hand, my chipped nails, a river rock. xo
The concept of reading can get trippy quickly if you focus on it too closely. A book is a tour of human emotions, thrills, grief, love, ideas and understanding. Words on the page are the conduit...
Because it is Fall
Hey there,
After decades of teaching college, my mind and body still move with the tides of the school year, and now is the time to start again, to move up, to work toward a metaphoric or literal graduation, to focus on projects and envis...
A Writing Prompt, For Those Who Dare.....
Could you describe a meal without naming the food?
Could you convey the experience in purely sensory descriptions? Visual, tactile, other…how would that work?
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Author of Clown Girl, The Stud Book, and The Folly of Loving Life. Short work in The New York Times Modern Love, Paris Review Daily and more. Find her on Substack at Words Shape Lives.
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