: About Me

I am 65, I helped to raise over 168 children from many races and ethnic diversities during the volatile 1970's and beyond. I did this in the context of a religious commune. I made lots of friends there but I also was persecuted for my own voice. So I have taken to writing as part of the healing process. Coincidentally my husband before I joined the commune also harassed me for my beliefs. Oh well. no reason to hold a grudge. All that happened to me created me into the person I am now. I believe in the power of love, family and the pen.

My passion is ...

my family

I know too much about ...

people

My parents always told me ...

you can't catch a squirrel in tree country

My childhood ambition ...

to be a mother of many

My favorite memory ...

gardens and fried chicken

Why I write ...

To preserve and document my memoirs and regain my voice

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

everything related to finishing my Masters in Ed.

My first job ...

picking and selling black berries.

My best moment ...

Having children

My inspiration ...

beautiful gardens, fountains and a really nice glass of wine

Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Moments that change your life

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Time of All Times We searched for a lost plane. We searched for three children, a pilot an aircraft. We searched for ourselves, our hopes, our dreams, our faith, our children. Loggers searched through Montana mountains next to environmentalists. Catholics held short wave radios next to Mormons. Each spoke a silent prayer to a personal God. Our choices lay like frosted beads upon our morning's path. Would we search with a Naive American elder? Perhaps, however, today we would search with a noted psychic. Choices, agonizing painful choices had to made every morning. The days dragged from one...

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