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 
Oooh, that was fun, and strange!
I kept thinking about my grand nieces and nephews and how they must have a language of their own I cannot fully decipher. And some pieces of Northwest Coastal Native American carvings showing transformations from animal to human to animal again.
Delightful!
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Thank you so very much! All of that is behind my story. It’s wonderful that you enjoyed it.
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As you know, I have always LOVED this insightfully rich creative story from its very first version. THANK YOU for giving us the link its completed form.
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Magic! Thank you, Shirley.
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