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Apr.20.2011 - 9:41 am
Death and Taxes are Inevitable--For Some of US
Death and Taxes are inevitable. For some of us. Those of us who live in the real world. Like my housekeeper, I pay my taxes religiously, as do my kids' school teachers, the...
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Feb.03.2011 - 8:31 am
Loss Is Not Singular
Loss for me is not singular, though each one has a corresponding weight. I have lost teeth and hair and my ability to bear children. I'm losing my vision and memory and my...
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Oct.06.2010 - 2:27 pm
A Whole Hand
  A Whole Hand   She turns the ashtray over. DaViD carved in crooked letters, thirteen years ago, when he was five, a whole hand! David shaped the ashtray just for her when...
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Sep.15.2010 - 9:17 am
Transitions
"We must become the change we want to see." ˆMahatma Gandhi Easy for him to say. I am still working on accepting what small change might be possible in me. 
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Short Story: Save Me
Short Story: OH, BABY
OLD JIMMY

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Comments from Teresa

Sep.24.2009 - 4:27 pm
In response to: Mothering: An Exercise in Loss
Thank you
Thanks Catherine!
Sep.24.2009 - 2:55 pm
In response to: Mothering: An Exercise in Loss
Thank you
Thank you for reading my blog and for your kind words. teresa
Sep.24.2009 - 2:18 pm
In response to: Mothering: An Exercise in Loss
Thank you!
Thank you for your kind remarks. The beauty of being a writer is having the opportunity to weave the hard parts of our...
Apr.14.2009 - 12:28 pm
In response to: Twenty-Five Things About Being a New Widow
thanks for that.
powerful. keep dancing
Jan.06.2009 - 11:24 am
In response to: What Happened, How he Died
Thank you Ericka
This is beautiful, heartbreaking, powerful.  I am thinking of you.
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About Teresa

Teresa's fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous literary journals, most recently in Best New Writing 2012. New work is forthcoming in The Best of Pen and Brush, Inc. Anthology. She leads workshops and teaches creative writing through Lakeshore...
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Causes Teresa Burns Gunther Supports

Alameda County Meals on Wheels, Union of Concerned Scientists; Planned Parenthood; ACLU, Women for Women, International; La Clinica; Kasimu Education Fund...

Teresa’s Favorite Books

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; Pride and Prejudice; Stones from the River; Hunger; Mrs. Dalloway; to be continued....