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- November 4, 2024
#NanoPoblano2024 Day 4 – Please: Go Ahead & Tell Your Story
Adrienne Rich, photographer unknown. Image taken from a “Weird ButTrue” Facebook post “Women have been driven mad, "gaslighted," for centuries…
- November 3, 2024
#NanoPoblano2024 Day 3 – Where Stories Lie
Jackson Browne has a quasi-gospel song that goes: Don’t you want to be there when the trumpets blow? Blow for…
- November 2, 2024
#NanoPoblano2024 Day 2 – Roadkill
I wrote this poem many years ago when I’d left a ten-year period of working first with people living outdoors…
- November 1, 2024
#NanoPoblano2024 Day 1 – National Blog Posting Month
It’s November, long-time host to National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), a challenge taken on by hundreds of thousands of writers…
- November 30, 2023
#NanoPoblano Day #30 – Challenge End
I wrote this poem several years ago from frustration over not being able to write. It seems like a good…
- November 30, 2023
#NanoPoblano Day #29
Talking to Yourself - My first combo English-Women’s Studies course in 1975, my first semester back after dropping out for…
- November 29, 2023
#NanoPoblano Day #28
Re-Creating Jonesy - As this 30-day blog challenge comes to an end, I’m turning my thoughts back to the novel…
- November 28, 2023
#NanoPoblano Day #27
"Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could." - Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum. Has anyone among my friends…
- November 28, 2023
#NanoPoblano Day #26
October 2021: NYC Midnight Short Fiction Challenge – For this story I was assigned: My writing process: Panic as assigned…
- November 28, 2023
#NanoPoblano Day #25
Your Words Matter - I've seen this a couple times since last night, and it seems like a fitting -…
- November 28, 2023
#NanoPoblano Day #24
This photo (very blurry once I enlarged it) is from Thanksgiving week 1987, a combined few days of my daughter’s…
- November 28, 2023
#NanoPoblano Day #23
A Confession Story – Part V of V - If you want to read this story, start at Day 19…