Works in Progress

The Covid Component in Creative Acts

Ever since March, when Covid forced us to shelter at home and take on cyberspace as our classroom, I’ve been teaching online. The zoom lessons have been going really well. In fact, they’re going so well I have to ask myself, “why?” These are the same private students who had been coming in week after…

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Motherhood: Path to Enlightenment

This is a working manuscript entitled: Motherhood: The Path to Enlightenment Following this Introduction, chapters will be posted focusing on the spiritual disciplines and benefits of Motherhood. Introduction: The children provide the landscape-we navigate the hills and valleys, ponds and streams and as we ride the waves of motherhood, we discover the courage and fierceness—the…

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An Excerpt from “Sextolet”

An excerpt from Rene’s book Sextolet. The heat looms so thick, Addie mindlessly tries to pull it back like a drape— part the dense dry hot with her rugged hand but all she does is wave the molecules and fire ‘em up hotter—even hotter. There’s no wind today to sweep through the house—no wind to…

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