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- old shows January 4, 2020
- Juxtaposed. July 2, 2019
- Remembering the Why September 20, 2018
- @Vote Garcia 4 FRC Board of Trustees September 17, 2018
- On Mothering, On Lovering July 12, 2018
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Juxtaposed.
Originally posted on Throwing Chanclas:
The sky is blue and the rolling hillside is just a few parkways and minutes over from the coast. The sun is shining but not too hot. Temperate. The sliding screen door to the backyard…
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Remembering the Why
Originally posted on Throwing Chanclas:
When you’ve taught at the same community college for 11 years you often wonder after your students graduate, did I make a difference? I mean it’s one thing to meet the student learning outcomes, but…
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On Mothering, On Lovering
Originally posted on Throwing Chanclas:
ON MOTHERING There are only two things you can do when someone misrepresents/defames you. You can either go inward and try and ignore it and hope one day that truth wins out and that all…
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Blue Sky Freedom–Rabble Lit
Originally posted on Throwing Chanclas:
is my newest personal essay up on Rabble Lit. I love this journal and the work they publish. It continually makes me feel like my perspective–my own working class background now has a voice and…
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April 26. Poetry Challenge. Interior Landscapes
If you never have anything you don’t know what there was to lose… my children know, though they do as they most surely knew love and warm dinners and cracked smiles and laughter as long as the days grown wild … Continue reading
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April 18 Poetry Challenge The Daughter Land Map
The Daughter Land Map It shows everything and nothing the terrain steep–so much to climb through in hardly enough space to breathe there are rocks and cliffs and a river somewhere on a distant valley floor. Did I bring the … Continue reading
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April 17 Poetry Challenge Requiem for an Ending
We meet in my office alone not too long, just long enough there are children to discuss and the taxi-ing of children to various places to various things i do not hate him if i can look at him, his … Continue reading
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April 12-14 Poetry Challenge (Notes from the Journal)
April 12 April 12 Daughterland Drugs I want to keep her off the northern californian crutch as long as possible I keep thinking it’s a green leafy battle but she’s thinking it something else I’m already losing the argument and … Continue reading
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