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 
Happy Birthday Jan !
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Thank you, Toni. We are just back from a great walk—poured rain for a bit, but I found two large pieces of seaglass!
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what if it isn’t just another birthdate
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I teach this poem when I introduce students to the sonnet! It occurs to me that you may have introduced it to me. Many happy returns!
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Happy Birthday Jan! Thanks for the gift of the sonnet. I’m glad that your computer has returned to you. Fingers crossed that it acted up for them and that they found and really fixed the problem this time.
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Thank you for your good wishes—I send good wishes back to you too! As best I can tell, they made exactly the same repair as last time according to the paperwork. [I so much appreciate that you read my posts!]
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Happy (Belated) Birthday! I’m slowly reacquainting myself with my WP writing community after being absent from reading for awhile. Hope you well 🙂
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Thank you, Marie. Busy and well.
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