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 
Thanks!
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I updated the link on the “All the Daughers Sing” post too. Two sentences are missing from the podcast—because I failed to read them.
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It sounds best when she reads what she wrote herself, I think
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Thanks, sweetheart!
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Cool! I bookmarked the story and added the podcast to my app to listen to later. Looking forward to reading and listening 🙂
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Thank you for this and in advance for listening!
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Congratulations! =0)
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Thank you—I hope you will give it a read or a listen.
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Of course ❤ The site looks awesome.
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I am grateful today for so many things!
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I am happy for you.
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It’s a lovely day here. The sun is out and I enjoyed listening to your story! Well done Jan!
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Thanks, Toni. Beautiful here too, but cold when I was out early for my three-mile run.
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I listened and read. Your story is really powerful but in a quiet, thoughtful way. I noted on the website that if our world were to die, this story gives me a sense of hope, of life continuing although it likely be altered.
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