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Patricia Louisa Mae Jones was born in 1972, in San Diego, California. She wrote her first poetry in High School to the man she would marry just days after graduation. Their eighteen year marriage has been blessed with three children, a son, Kyle, and two daughters,

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Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Traveling mishaps: 1 of 33
Directional SenseAlright, so you want to know about this thing I call my internal compass, or rather... the vacuum that occupies the space where it's supposed to be. Let me start with a simple example. About two years ago, I got lost in my own kitchen. It's not as impossible as it sounds. Ask anyone you know who's been applyi... More..
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Truth: 2 of 25
The Big OneIt started with a skinned knee. An unruly pack of wild boys and one unkempt girl romped between the uneven curbs. They hurled a battered blue football in a game that resembled both keep away and king of the hill all at once. The streetlights hadn't yet flickered to life in the early dusk and called us home for dinn... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Doctors: 2 of 19
Dr KennedyI remember how you spoke instead of listeninghow you needed to tell mehe wouldn't live through the night.My eyes closed tight, but I couldn't see him dyingonly the bright yellow flowersin the vase beside your frigid hand.The TV doctors always say I'm sorryI thought you should say it too. You kept me from him because... More..
Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Automobile accidents: 4 of 34
SnapshotsSunlight glints off the steel zipper of my new leather jacket as my gloved fingers struggle with the tab. After a fight that takes too long and gets me nowhere, I slap at the closure in frustration. I feel the thick, protective pads against my body and twist my head to look at Brian. His dark brown eyes sparkle with ... More..
Arts & Humanities > William Shakespeare The different stages of King Lear's insanity: 1 of 8
Cordelia and the Fool in The Tragedy of King Lear If one were to judge by the sheer volume of academic research available for reference on topics of interest in King Lear it would be easy to assume that it has been studied and extrapolated to the point of full exposure. However even as we read the work again, some three hund... More..
Creative Writing > Essays Essays: Can creative writing be taught?: 4 of 26
Finding Voice An Interruption of Silence There are over two million responses when you Google it and over four thousand books about it on Amazon. It is referenced hundreds of times in the seven issues of The Writer's Chronicle I have on my desk and at least twice as often in The American Poetry Review. There have been entire ... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Describe yourself: 64 of 294
Words Like MarblesMy pen hovers over another unfinished line.Words roll away from me now, like marbles,like the summer of 1979.A day as hot as the roofing tar we chew instead of gum,and just as sticky.Faced-off over a perfect circle,scribed by popsicle stick in the dusty dirtbehind Joe's Liquor and Deli.This is our turf, wher... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Endings: 15 of 64
What is LeftYou said to rememberso I groundchippedhammereda monument in stoneto reveal the beautiful truth of you.You sawthe deep lines around your wise eyesgnarled and swollen knuckles of your tender handssagging breasts that fed your children.When every flawreal or imaginedhas been chiseled awayI am left with dust and my lo... More..
Education > Colleges & Universities (Other) Should colleges require summer reading of incoming freshmen?: 5 of 19
The question being debated here is not whether or not a college freshman needs the reading being proposed, as that seems to be a uniform affirmative on both sides of the debate. The question to be answered is what is to be gained by requiring a summer reading, and perhaps more importantly, how does this reading benefit the st... More..
Arts & Humanities > English Language Teaching English as a second language: 7 of 24
This article represents my personal reflections on the places created by "The Arrival," a 20006 graphic book by Shaun Tan, in which rhetorical questions can be safely constructed. For the duration of this article I will refer to these spaces as Public Spheres, in the tradition of Rosa Eberly's book, "Citizen Critics," release... More..