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.
Bracken, the online journal from Washington, believes in hope to get us all by through with “love of the woods and its shadows.”
IMPERFECT PATIENCE 
What a beautiful journal! And your piece is lovely with those vast pictures. Here in Maine we experience some of that same powerful coastal timeless magnificance.
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Thank you, Karen. My great-grand aunts who first purchased the property I live on were from Maine. Maybe one reason they chose this place was that it reminded them of home.
It is one of my ambitions to be included in an issue of Bracken. Their covers are always stunning and their mission is heartfelt. (And I played with bracken as a child.)
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Your entry about Bracken inspired me to work up a piece I had jotted down and submit it to Coronavirus Hopelings. I hadn’t managed to work on anything since the pandemic and I’d forgotten how much fun it is to puzzle over dilemmas like whether to use the word ‘capture’ or ‘memorialize’ and so on! Thank you for this!
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Congratulations! I have been writing daily . . . but then I do. Had a fiction rejection yesterday, but I will send the story out again.
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Thanks, and good for you! Yes gotta get those rejections flowing … For now I’m just happy to be writing again!
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