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  • This type of censorship isn't really about not being offensive. It's about the need to deny anything terrible that has ever gone on and deny that anything terrible cou...
  • I live in a town so small and diverse that it's not uncommon for people NOT to know one another. People are spread out here. Some live down long dirt roads and only ve...
  • So glad the post has helped in any way! I have been teaching memoir down a long dirt road in Freeport, Maine at the University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast MFA progr...
  • This article is a gust of fresh wind on the dust surrounding my creativity! I relish the reminder that I can't bury what I like to write (or my creative yearnings). It just keeps popping out of the dirt begging to be written! Yes! Tell it!
  • Gloria commented on Tayari Jones's article WHAT THE HUCK?
    Use of the n word as a obscenity is the flaw, as it referes to ones lowest sense of self worth. As does the sense of the use of slave evoke powerful testimony from man...
  • "As my feet found a rhythm, so did my creativity."    As a singer/songwriter, I've long noticed how just getting out for a walk and allowing my body to synch to any rh...
  • Kevin, I think what you did for your friend was remarkable.He needed one good friend at the end and you were there for him. My brother's wife became one of my good fri...
  • Deborah, "My daughter was an artist and a writer and now she's a gardener," my mother said of me. She who had always expected me to be something I was not —yet— seemed...
  • I am finally going public about Simon Fraser University's role in my revictimization.  I felt that here was the perfect place to start, considering the topic!  My ex-f...
  • Hi all, thanks for the great questions and kind words. I dropped out for the 4th of July down a long dirt road in Maine with my family. Restorative! So let's see. Big,...