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I'm a freelance writer (much published), a cornbread-loving, genre-bending sixty something year-old.
Writing is work, play, the way I make much of my living. It's occasionally highly anxious-making, always surprising. I teach, and am constantly taught by, writing. Read More…

Deep Feast

YOU’RE INVITED: A NEW YEARS DAY PARTY PLAN B (AS IN BLACK-EYED PEAS)

In the years since I have been an adult, I have hosted a New Year’s Day open house, in the late afternoon on the first day of the new year, probably once every three or four years. What I served at the first one, back when I was nineteen and had just moved to the small Ozarks boho Victorian arts… Read More

  • MY FABULOUS GREEN TOMATO (MEATLESS) MINCEMEAT

Nothing Is Wasted On the Writer

MOTHERLESS MOTHER’S DAY: GROWING SELF-COMPASSION

MOTHER’S DAY, IN ITS INSISTENCE ON SENTIMENT, BIOLOGY, AND CONSUMERISM, HAS ALWAYS DIMINISHED MOTHERING. FOR MOTHERING HAS ALWAYS BEEN MUCH BIGGER THAN MOTHERHOOD. AND IT TRANSCENDS REPRODUCTION. EVEN GENDER. Being a mother, and having a mother, even when it works beautifully, even in times of general robust public health and political stability, is never as simple as a mug saying… Read More

  • BLOSSOMING, NO MATTER WHAT: A CHRISTMAS (CACTUS) STORY

Fearless Living

WHY YOU CAN’T “HEAL” WIDOWHOOD GRIEF

WHAT TO DO WHEN THE REGULAR PARADIGMS DON’T WORK Most of us, before widowhood was thrust upon us, gave little thought to what that state would actually be like.  And when and if we did try to conceive of it, most of us got it wrong. ” … In the version of grief we imagine (before we are widowed),” writes… Read More

  • FIFTY SHADES OF GRIEF, IN OCTOBER

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