NUDITY

Years ago, the Art teacher at the coastal high school where I was also a teacher for thirty years asked the Biology teacher to pick up a special-order book for her while she was shopping at Powell's Book Store in Portland. (I was not that Art teacher—I taught Art in Washington State—this was Sandy, the …

SKY

It is the sky that inspires. It is the sky. The sky. east west east My husband and I have been struggling to imagine where our lives have led. Not where we expected. Not a bad place for us, only different. I am inclined, always, to consider the opposing view of any issue, a habit …

MAYA ANGELOU

https://www.youtube.com/embed/NzQtGCw49uc I saw Maya Angelou in 1991 or '92 when I took students to the University of Portland campus. She was spectacular. No lessor word will do. I had to post this here because the version I found at my favorite nonprofit website had someone else reading her poem. Nope. Nobody but Maya Angelou speaks …

GOOD NEWS

Our granddaughter had her second heart surgery this morning. It went well. Minimally invasive and she may go home this afternoon. Incredible. This photo shows a trapezoid, but is in a rectangular frame I already had, photographed at an angle to avoid most of the glare on the glass. The crying bird appliqué is by …

The STORY

My story was already live on Metaphorosis before 6am when I first checked just a moment ago—both the text and the podcast. ALL THE DAUGHTERS SING. [updated link to start of story... hopefully. A response on the Metaphorosis website or here is much appreciated. Bloggers may click "like" at the end of the story text. …

ALL THE DAUGHTERS SING

At least five years ago, I typed out the first draft of a story in which nearly all moveable life on earth had died. It was too long and when I tried to cut it back to below five thousand words... it got longer. Then it became a novella with over twenty thousand words. I …