My Blogger site had over 250k reads when I closed it, but here I am again.
I was born in Corvallis, Oregon, lived briefly in Portland, then spent the rest of my childhood in Seattle where I attended the University of Washington as a studio arts major. Since 1979 I have lived with my husband in a family home on the Oregon coast, frequently traveling these days to Portland where our sons live with their families.
After 40 years of teaching, Art in a girls’ prep school and then English in a small public high school and community college, I walk the coastal shore or Portland streets each day for as long as I like.
My writing has earned an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship, Arts & Letters fellowship, Soapstone residency, Pushcart nomination, and publication in journals such as Brevity and the Brevity blog, Catamaran Literary Review, The MacGuffin, CALYX Journal, Metaphorosis (with podcast), Liminal Stories, Raven Chronicles, The Humanist, and North American Review. An MFA graduate from Pacific University, I live and create in the NW corner of my home state of Oregon where I am currently working on my next project.
I taught college writing for eleven years, ran writing workshops, presented for the Oregon Council and National Council of Teachers of English, and published about writing and literature in Oregon English Journal as well as national journals. I am dancing as fast as I can.
IMPERFECT PATIENCE 
Never did Camp NaNo, but did several years of the traditional NaNoWriMo in November- how do the two compare in format and does one work better for you than the other?
Looks like you’re goals are being reached – yay!
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Camp NaNo allows the writer to choose a goal, and it can be any number of words, pages, or hours. Some people revise a long work while others aim to complete a hour a day or writing 10k words (me) or 30 pages. It is entirely flexible. (You can even change your mind and alter your goal—last year I planned to write 7.5k and changed my goal to 15k when I realized my story was longer that I’d anticipated.)
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