PATRICIA EAGLE discovered language with her first word
“bird,” later discovering great solace in nature. Six decades of
journaling also served as a life buoy—tangible evidence of a life
explored in earnest while being tossed by the confounding experiences
of childhood sexual abuse.

Her experience as a high school teacher informed her master’s
research on the use of “professional reflective journaling,”
a method to help educators better understand themselves and
their students. A story gatherer, Eagle maintains an unyielding
commitment to excavating and acknowledging what is resilient
about her life, and the lives of others, as an author and a
Life-Cycle Celebrant®.
She lives amidst mountains and hot springs in the San Luis
Valley in south central Colorado where she watches the Milky
Way splash across night skies. Being Mean is her first book.

Patricia has seven stories published in four anthologies and online with the National Home Funeral Alliance.

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