Writing
Creating the Life of My Dreams
Real Raw
Read about my year-long experiment with eating Raw Food here ...
High Sierra Century
On a whim, I decided to ride 100 miles, also known as a century ride, with the Leukemia Society’s Team in Training. To tell the truth, it wasn’t exactly a whim. I’d been tossing the idea around in my mind ever since I’d seen a Team in Training brochure that arrived along with some junk mail. I was attracted to the structure, athletic training, and meaningful cause, wrapped up in a neat, attractive package, and tied with a promise of success.
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British Columbia: A Novice's Cycling Adventure
People do odd things around their 50th birthdays – jump from airplanes, scale mountains, learn to ski, go on bicycle tours. Quickly approaching my own half-century mark, I wanted to commemorate it with my own accomplishment...
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- Bees Sting
It was there, on the aggregate concrete patio of our Eichler Highlands home, that I found out about bees.
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Fiction
Armchair Traveler
The first time Clara walked into one of her paintings, she was fifteen. ... Trembling, she was startled when she found herself flat on her back, looking at a cerulean sky. Read Excerpt ...
Elly
Elly peered out from behind the rock. ... It had been a long, hard winter, and her people had been confined to the deeper reaches of their underground kingdom where, though warm, it was always grey. She was starved for color. They had only returned to the surface two days ago. Rebellious and restless, Elly had slipped away by herself, which was against the rules. That's why she had been alone among the flowers when the deep, grating voices vibrated like abandoned echoes through the plant's green stems. Read Excerpt ...
Claire
Anna is newly divorced and struggling to raise a troubled teenage boy, Tyler, and his 6-year old sister, Claire. But Claire has the power to tell the future, and when she begins to have nightmares about being kidnapped by a child predator, Anna looks for help.
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Small Liberties
While most of us sat back, contentedly eating our Big Whops and gulping our Bigger Gulps, the greatest terrorists of all time came to dominate the world. If we were taken unaware, it was only because we did not want to see what was happening. We had become a bloated and lazy people, unwilling to fight, in a moral sense, for our way of life. It was beyond our ability to comprehend that we could ever lose our freedom.
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The Ring
The amethyst sparkled at Lisa as she studied the ring in the dim shop light. The deep purple stone, set in an intricate scrollwork pattern, radiated an inner light. She slipped it on her right ring finger. It was a perfect fit.
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Poetry
Lips Conquer Cliché
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A Moment in Time
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Cycling Sestina
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Noticing
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What's New & Works in Progress
Memoir
I am currently writing a Memoir, titled I Am NOT My Mother: A story of love and denial, about my life and relationship with my mother from childhood through my young adult years. It shares a side-by-side comparison of my memories and emotions with my mother's, as recorded in her journals during the same periods of time.
My Mother's Daughter is a poignant reminder that life and reality isn't always what it seems, and that we are more like our parents than we know.
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Human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity. (Translation from French)
Gustave Flaubert