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 
trump is like Charles Manson because manson never killed anyone either–he had his cult of monsters do it—that was then this is now let 25 take 45 away –we don’t need this bear dung eater anymore as if we ever did
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We never did.
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It should be but how did we get here?
On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 12:01 PM IMPERFECT PATIENCE wrote:
> janpriddyoregon posted: ” Don’t most Americans feel that violent thugs do > not represent the best of what our country has to offer? Don’t we believe > that reason and fairness should rule over tyranny and violence? Again, may > 2021 lead us all to rediscover the virtues of hope, c” >
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Heart aching.
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It’s almost too much to read the news—the details are worse and worse.
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Yes.
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So true; the details are more and more crushing. I live just outside DC. I have friends and neighbors who work for these Congressmen and women and in that beautiful building. That there are people who are proud of this incident and who want a repeat performance make me so angry and so sad.
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The people who did this represent an abject failure of morality and honor. I remain shocked that so many fail to recognize this failure.
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