RESPONSIBILITY

NOTE:  this is another in a series of  chapter drafts to be included in the book ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO WRITING:  A MIXED-RACE WRITER’S JOURNEY  (tentative title).  This particular chapter took me in a direction I wasn’t planning on traveling, thus the road is windy and full of rocks-the key word as …

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 OBSESSIVE BEHAVIORS: writing the same story over and over again

OBSESSIVE BEHAVIORS:  writing the same story over and over again   I started writing in second grade, a jingle.  I was paraded from room to room in Standish Elementary School to persuade my peers to give money to public television, or some such cause.  In fifth grade, some of us …

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LOVE IMAGINED: synopsis read at two Book Award Events

MINNESOTA BOOK AWARDS THE LOFT LITERARY CENTER MARCH 20, 2015 HOSMER LIBRARY MARCH 23, 2015 (36th and 4th Avenue by Richard Green School, previously Central High School) (Aunt Lucille Wilson Shivers lived on 39th and 4th Avenue. Her husband, Spencer Shiver, owned the barber shop on the corner of 38th …

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