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 
Dale said jelly fish brake apart in the surf all the time so maybe pieces of jelly fish. So my question would be why now? Why the sudden increase in the quantity of jelly fish in this area?
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This was not like the broken jellies we see all the time. It was a fish-shape, tampered at each end and with a knot of dark opaque tissue at one end like an eye (not an eye). We saw hundreds come in on one tide and a few more since, all of them this shape, two to four inches long.
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I went for a walk with Yuki and Legendary this morning. I told him about what you see on your walks and described where you live. It was a very pleasant walk! He was a lovely companion! We walked through the woods and saw rabbits and 3 black dogs. We walked 3 miles and the last 1/2 there was a lot of stopping to rest for Legendary.
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numbers 2 and 3 are birds –definately and I think number 1 could be what a hiccup looks like when it is tired of trying to remember where it left the trampoline
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