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Jan.01.2013 nature preserve, or preserved nature Three Sisters, Oregon Fireflies fell regularly into The tents, scrambled in the corner of the lodge, smelled of urine and You were crying, locked in the Porto-San, and no one could The raccoons, all dark hands and musk, crawled in through One of the counselors in the hot tub said I took the...	Nov.20.2011 My Cooking Exploits! Please continue enjoying my experience, and if you have friends that would be amused and interested, please share it with them! I'm all for people learning the lessons I learned firsthand! Entry 6: Ah, my cooking exploits. I do declare, cooking is harder than it smells. And it...
Feb.27.2011 perhaps my longest poem ever July, Then Before Your dark straight hair like some kind of expensive silk skin I wanted to stick my fist through. That Neil Diamond song we practiced all year in the 8th grade out on the front lawn. The album playing in your bedroom. Singing it to each other in the bathroom stalls. How you...	Mar.16.2010 Take a break from writing for a good cause--Tourney for the Journey! Every year as the excitement for the NCAA basketball wars heats up, so too, does the push for fun and funding at Sierra Nevada Journeys, an environmental camp near Lake Tahoe. My daughter B is currently Director of Community Partnerships at SNJ, having moved up through many different...
Nov.15.2009 NaNo WriMo: A Chunk of Chapter 19. The scenery was right out of a documentary. Occasionally she’d glimpse a big horned sheep or an elk. Several times deer would snort and blow if she got close to where they were hiding out from mountain lions or coyotes. She felt as if she was passing through a time doorway into the past. No...