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Essays

"Outlasting Angie" - Awakenings Anthology

"A Duality Within Me" - The Memoirist Quarterly

"A Duality Within Me" - The Memoirist Quarterly

Writers share their hearts, their limbs, their breasts -- even their teeth! -- in this stunning collection ...


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"A Duality Within Me" - The Memoirist Quarterly

"A Duality Within Me" - The Memoirist Quarterly

"A Duality Within Me" - The Memoirist Quarterly

“Think of it like a raspberry,” he said. It was an odd visual, certainly, yet I followed his lead  …   


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"Soul Holidays" - The Mindful Word

"A Duality Within Me" - The Memoirist Quarterly

"A Calling to Return" - Emerge Magazine

A favorite quote I keep tacked to a bulletin board in my office reads: “One’s destination …   


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"A Calling to Return" - Emerge Magazine

"A Hole in the Head" - Dorothy Parker's Ashes

"A Calling to Return" - Emerge Magazine

I’m not sure why my mind keeps returning to my time on the hill, the remote hill in Vermont …   


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"A Hole in the Head" - Dorothy Parker's Ashes

"A Hole in the Head" - Dorothy Parker's Ashes

"A Hole in the Head" - Dorothy Parker's Ashes

We’d arrived at the ER just after midnight, January 5, 2016—ironically, Mom’s eighty-first birthday.  


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"V Is" - The Sandy River Review

"A Hole in the Head" - Dorothy Parker's Ashes

"A Hole in the Head" - Dorothy Parker's Ashes

In late winter, 2020, I—and the world—learned that V is for virus. Shapeless, unable to be seen, heard ... 


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"Propped" - Longridge Review

"The Dred of a Shred" - Dorothy Parker's Ashes

"The Dred of a Shred" - Dorothy Parker's Ashes

I was a late bloomer, learning to ride a bike. While most kids learn by kindergarten ... 


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"The Dred of a Shred" - Dorothy Parker's Ashes

"The Dred of a Shred" - Dorothy Parker's Ashes

"The Dred of a Shred" - Dorothy Parker's Ashes

I’ve had a headache for thirty days. OK, I’m lying. It’s closer to sixty, but sixty days sounds terribly long.  


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"Frickin' Lion" - Porridge Magazine

"The Dred of a Shred" - Dorothy Parker's Ashes

"The Weight of Oars" - Barren Magazine

The mane streams behind the dog as it tears across gray floorboards.

“Frickin’ lion.”  


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"The Weight of Oars" - Barren Magazine

"The Weight of Oars" - Barren Magazine

"The Weight of Oars" - Barren Magazine

My brother Sean and I had a routine the summer we spent in hospital waiting rooms. He’d pull ...


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"Must" - Moxy Magazine

"The Weight of Oars" - Barren Magazine

"Shift" - Under the Gum Tree

I was at the final winery I’d be visiting in the Chianti region, seated at a long farm table with ... 


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"Shift" - Under the Gum Tree

"The Weight of Oars" - Barren Magazine

"Shift" - Under the Gum Tree

A breeze swept off the water and into the car’s window as we crossed the Tobin Bridge toward home. 


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"The Color of Heartache" - The Coachella Review

"The Color of Heartache" - The Coachella Review

"The Color of Heartache" - The Coachella Review

 In my garden, one of the first of my summer plants to push up from the ground in late May, after the spring ...


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"Birds in a yard, men on horseback" - Openwork

"The Color of Heartache" - The Coachella Review

"The Color of Heartache" - The Coachella Review

My mother announces on a mild June afternoon, a Sunday, that she wants her birdbath moved. 


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"Singultus" - Bacopa Literary Review

"The Color of Heartache" - The Coachella Review

"Singultus" - Bacopa Literary Review

I hiccupped and slid into the booth beside Shelly. Wiggled out of my down coat. It was March, slushy ...


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Flash (< 750 Words)

"Still There" - (mac)ro(mic)

"The Girl in the Corner" - Suburban Witchcraft

"The Girl in the Corner" - Suburban Witchcraft

You were there, not conscious but in body, when they draped you, intubated and hooked you to a ventilator  ...  


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"The Girl in the Corner" - Suburban Witchcraft

"The Girl in the Corner" - Suburban Witchcraft

"The Girl in the Corner" - Suburban Witchcraft

My mother was in the room with me, morning to evening, in the weeks following my open-head surgery.   


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"Tracks" - 433

"The Girl in the Corner" - Suburban Witchcraft

"The Pull" - X-R-A-Y Magazine

Sunshine streams from a cloudless sky through leafless maple branches, winter white bright  ...   


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"The Pull" - X-R-A-Y Magazine

"The Pull" - X-R-A-Y Magazine

"The Pull" - X-R-A-Y Magazine

I’ve felt the pull for years, to see what’s out there, how it differs from what I understand of the world ...


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"What Matters" - Plum Recruit

"The Pull" - X-R-A-Y Magazine

"What Matters" - Plum Recruit

Our neighborhood has a sidewalk chalk artist, and I think she’s a girl.  Twelve, maybe thirteen ...


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"Unrestricted" - 433

"The Pull" - X-R-A-Y Magazine

"What Matters" - Plum Recruit

Dispatch, from a May morning. The birds don’t know. They didn’t get the memo. Their songs outside my ...  


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"See" - Rubbertop Review

"At Waking" - Dream Journal

"At Waking" - Dream Journal

It snuck up on us, most of us. We see this now. Outside of a handful of specialists ...


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"At Waking" - Dream Journal

"At Waking" - Dream Journal

"At Waking" - Dream Journal

It’s the news, it must be the news. Why else would I dream something so horrific?   


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"Land Grab" - Dream Journal

"At Waking" - Dream Journal

"Land Grab" - Dream Journal

The buildings flow as one attached with lumber and nail and stories of conjoined life across two centuries.  


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Micro (< 250 Words) and Prose Poems

"Germie" - Five Minute Lit

"Resistance, in Yellow" - Unstamatic

"Buoyant" - The Basilisk Tree

Kindergarten “show-and-tell” day. I trailed my brothers to school, clutching my ...


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"Buoyant" - The Basilisk Tree

"Resistance, in Yellow" - Unstamatic

"Buoyant" - The Basilisk Tree

As spring springs and buds bud, soon petals push open and bees bumble. Everywhere, breezes.


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"Resistance, in Yellow" - Unstamatic

"Resistance, in Yellow" - Unstamatic

"Resistance, in Yellow" - Unstamatic

Yellow rose topiary, big blooms billowing atop ball, ruffled roses commanding attention. Admiration.


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"Struggle, in Orange" - Gastropoda

"Mirth, in Terra Cotta" - Duck Duck Mongoose

"Resistance, in Yellow" - Unstamatic

Orange, the color of sunsets missed all summer as I retreated to a bedroom, shades drawn ...  


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"Release, in Blue" - Gastropoda

"Mirth, in Terra Cotta" - Duck Duck Mongoose

"Mirth, in Terra Cotta" - Duck Duck Mongoose

Pinwheels of pain, blue and bursting, radiate from my shoulder, furious fireworks lit and launching off  …  


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"Mirth, in Terra Cotta" - Duck Duck Mongoose

"Mirth, in Terra Cotta" - Duck Duck Mongoose

"Mirth, in Terra Cotta" - Duck Duck Mongoose

Mounded moonbeam tickseed tickles your torso among day lilies that disco-dance in a breeze …  


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Poetry

"Poetry Showcase" - Fevers of the Mind

"Poetry Showcase" - Fevers of the Mind

"Poetry Showcase" - Fevers of the Mind

Short reveries about moments of renewal, the importance of rest, and how sadness visits ...


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"Irish Green" - Backstory

"Poetry Showcase" - Fevers of the Mind

"Poetry Showcase" - Fevers of the Mind

I am from an Irish Clan’s love,

strong as bedrock, deep as ocean. I am from a surgeon's scalpel ...


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"Bands of Honey" - Welter

"Poetry Showcase" - Fevers of the Mind

"Kingdom Come" - Sledgehammer Lit

We plod in silence through slices of the Sahara the color of honey: wavy and warm  ...


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"Kingdom Come" - Sledgehammer Lit

"Kingdom Come" - Sledgehammer Lit

"Kingdom Come" - Sledgehammer Lit

Garden gargoyle, rumpled of brow, drowsy of eye, pointy of ear, peeks at me as I work the earth ...


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"Abode" - Eucalyptus & Rose

"Kingdom Come" - Sledgehammer Lit

"Abode" - Eucalyptus & Rose

She feels January in her joints,

her bones a built-in bellwether to barometric bounces  ...


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"Puff" - Olit

"Kingdom Come" - Sledgehammer Lit

"Abode" - Eucalyptus & Rose

She puffs and the flame, bending and swaying at the top of the solitary birthday candle  ...


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Recent Craft Interviews

WOW! Women on Writing Interview- November 2023

WOW! Women on Writing Interview- November 2023

WOW! Women on Writing Interview- November 2023

I interviewed Diane Gottlieb, Prose and CNF Editor with ELJ.  


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WOW! Women on Writing Interview - July 2023

WOW! Women on Writing Interview- November 2023

WOW! Women on Writing Interview- November 2023

I interviewed Joy Clark, Managing Editor with eMerge Magazine.  


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WOW! Women on Writing Interview - April 2023

WOW! Women on Writing Interview- November 2023

WOW! Women on Writing Interview - February 2023

I interviewed Claire Oleson, Senior Poetry Editor with Cleaver.  


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WOW! Women on Writing Interview - February 2023

WOW! Women on Writing Interview - February 2023

WOW! Women on Writing Interview - February 2023

I interviewed Brooke Warner, Publisher of She Writes Press. 


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WOW! Women on Writing Interview- November 2022

WOW! Women on Writing Interview - February 2023

WOW! Women on Writing Interview- November 2022

I interviewed Kathy Fish, award-winning writer and teacher. 


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WOW! Women on Writing Interview - August 2022

WOW! Women on Writing Interview - February 2023

WOW! Women on Writing Interview- November 2022

I interviewed Tobi Harper, Deputy Director with Red Hen Press. 


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Older Craft Interviews

WOW! Women on Writing Interview - April 2022

WOW! Women on Writing Interview - February 2022

WOW! Women on Writing Interview - February 2022

I interviewed EIC Betsy Boyd and Poetry Editor Micaela Walley with Welter. 


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WOW! Women on Writing Interview - February 2022

WOW! Women on Writing Interview - February 2022

WOW! Women on Writing Interview - February 2022

I interviewed Christy O'Callaghan, Managing Editor with Barzakh. 


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WOW! Women on Writing Interview - December 2021

WOW! Women on Writing Interview - February 2022

WOW! Women on Writing Interview - December 2021

I interviewed Amy Giuffrida, Literary Agent, The Jennifer De Chiara Agency.  


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WOW! Women on Writing Interview - October 2021

WOW! Women on Writing Interview - October 2021

WOW! Women on Writing Interview - December 2021

I interviewed Co-Editors-in-Chief with Exposition Review. 


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WOW! Women on Writing Interview - August 2021

WOW! Women on Writing Interview - October 2021

WOW! Women on Writing Interview - August 2021

I interviewed Janna Maron, Editor & Publisher of Under the Gum Tree. 


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WOW! Women on Writing Interview - June 2021

WOW! Women on Writing Interview - October 2021

WOW! Women on Writing Interview - August 2021

I interviewed Maria Rogers, Literary Agent with The Tobias Agency. 


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WOW! Women on Writing Interview - May 2021

WOW! Women on Writing Interview - February 2021

WOW! Women on Writing Interview - March 2021

I interviewed Lilly Dancyger, author of the memoir, Negative Space. 


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WOW! Women on Writing Interview - March 2021

WOW! Women on Writing Interview - February 2021

WOW! Women on Writing Interview - March 2021

I interviewed K.B. Carle, Associate Editor with Fractured Lit. 


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WOW! Women on Writing Interview - February 2021

WOW! Women on Writing Interview - February 2021

WOW! Women on Writing Interview - February 2021

I interviewed Marissa Glover, Senior Editor with The Lascaux Review. 


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WOW! Women on Writing Interview - January 2021

WOW! Women on Writing Interview - January 2021

WOW! Women on Writing Interview - February 2021

I interviewed Taylor Byas, Poetry Editor with Flypaper Lit. 


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WOW! Women on Writing Interview- December 2020

WOW! Women on Writing Interview - January 2021

WOW! Women on Writing Interview- December 2020

I interviewed Jo Varnish, CNF Editor with X-R-A-Y Magazine. 


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Columns

Fevers of the Mind - "Quick 9"

Bacopa Literary Review Blog - "To Catch One's Breath While sobbing"

Bacopa Literary Review Blog - "To Catch One's Breath While sobbing"

... a devastating diagnosis is not always a death sentence, even when it involves a bleeding brain tumor.


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Bacopa Literary Review Blog - "To Catch One's Breath While sobbing"

Bacopa Literary Review Blog - "To Catch One's Breath While sobbing"

Bacopa Literary Review Blog - "To Catch One's Breath While sobbing"

When I wrote "Singultus” I was enrolled in a six-week writing workshop where we were encouraged to include ...


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WOW! Women on Writing - "Muse and Meaning"

Bacopa Literary Review Blog - "To Catch One's Breath While sobbing"

WOW! Women on Writing - "Muse and Meaning"

“A fiction writer starts with meaning, then manufactures events to represent it. A memoirist starts with events, then ...”  


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Pink Pangea - "Tapas, not Turkey"

Pink Pangea - "Tapas, not Turkey"

WOW! Women on Writing - "Muse and Meaning"

I spent my 2017 Thanksgiving in Barcelona. It was a departure, in many ways, from how I typically celebrate this U.S. holiday ...


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Pink Pangea - "Trip of Triumph"

Pink Pangea - "Tapas, not Turkey"

Pink Pangea - "Trip of Triumph"

There’s no better way for me to remember to appreciate my blessings than to travel, and to begin to understand how the other half ... 


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