Dark and Deep
There were only two prompts for today's piece: "the woods are lovely, dark and deep" (a line from Robert Frost's Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening) and "Things Change, Even [...]
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May, 2026
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Nov, 2025
Watercolor
Written with the prompts: bright red lips, cave dwellers, something to read, everything was not okay, fast forward six months, can’t save everyone, jelly jar glasses, sanctuary, I’ll come back Netta [...]
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Jun, 2025
Solstice
In celebration of the solstice, I'm reviving a piece I wrote several years ago after a morning volunteering at a hospitality center that serves breakfast to low-income and homeless women [...]
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Aug, 2024
Too Late
Another Summer Rerun from 2021 I wrote this--as I often do--with my Thursday night writing group. Prompts included: I have waited too long, ferocious food, what was the house like, [...]
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Dec, 2023
When the Time Travel Agent Asks When and Where
I choose San Francisco because I miss ocean air. I’ve been sleep walking in a dusty valley but the air in San Francisco is cold and saline. When you walk [...]
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Jan, 2023
In the Aftermath of the Wind
Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: twenty past midnight, what used to live under your bed, if you come to a fork take it, why are you [...]
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Nov, 2022
Happy Thanksgiving
I pray and affirm that we are a courageous and compassionate people, eager to heal racism, misogyny, homophobia, and hatred, to create a culture that values all life, that treasures [...]
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Jan, 2022
Beginning
Beginning Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: tumbleweeds, fruit, this morning I could smell _______, no one seemed upset, just move one foot, stories I don’t want or [...]
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Sep, 2020
September 11th
September 11th, 2001, was a big emotional punch to the gut to all of us, everywhere. Most particularly to those on the east coast of course, but we were all blindsided [...]
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Oct, 2019
Susan’s Calling
Written with the prompts: be able to answer that call, are we there yet?, shit no!, you are told what to think but, a faded newspaper picture, why they did what [...]