
Becoming Our Words
A look back on writing for the kid (not kids).
A mix of memory and motivation, food and family, arts and community. Whatever comes to mind when I'm walking.
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A look back on writing for the kid (not kids).

Many years ago, progress may have been framed by territorial grabs, but others saw how citizens would benefit from experiencing our great lands and seas.

A wind phone makes a connection to the forest beyond the trees.

Answers form as the waves do, in peaks and falls.

Another tesoro piccolo because of my father.

Reverence for the work is at the heart of it all

Sometime early March, I shamefully admitted something to myself.

Yes, I do own a dolly.

Another piccolo tesoro, this time for the moms.

The sky was a jeweled earthly blue as my husband and I walked along Nedonna Beach.

to bring you a "Netti" announcement

Plus Lettuce Soup, another piccolo tesoro.

In that place, a shoe store once stood, I wrote in January of 2001, mimicking Toni Morrison in Sula writing, "In that place, where they tore the nightshade and blackberry patches from their roots to make room for the Medallion City Golf Course, there was once a neighborhood."

An American war, Friday, the 13th, shoes that don't fit, and measuring my own madness.

What Team USA's women’s hockey taught me about the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's sexual assaults.

What Team USA's women’s hockey taught me about the victims and survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's sexual assaults.

Where else can we find piccoli tesori, except in bowls?

Were they simply tossed out from the waves? Or had they erupted too, forming a landslide?

The BIG snow was scheduled to begin Saturday at 7 p.m. My birthday party at 8.

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The writer in me wants to rest, but—