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 
I shall make it a goal to straighten up my studio this year!
On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 7:33 AM IMPERFECT PATIENCE wrote:
> janpriddyoregon posted: ” https://www.youtube.com/embed/LpAKcQufacc > Canadian friends sent us this in appreciation for my photos of the local > Cooper’s hawk. I completed weaving the Olive warp—three distinctly > different shawls, none of which read olive and one of which doe” >
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I have cleared mine twice, for all the good it’s done me—no, that’s wrong. I clean it after every major project is completed in order to start in a tidy space!
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Pretty good! Shared it with a group of friends to cheer them along. Thanks.
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Thanks Jan, I’ve already had quite a few replies saying how much they liked it and really needed that.
Cheers,,,
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Remember: if your wife doesn’t find you handsome, she should at least find you quoting Red Green from time to time or the longest time. After all, he is the hockey player and you know what they say in hockey—let’s get the puck and trump out of here—stay safe and thanks for the giving.
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