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  • The Questions

    For over a year now, every couple of weeks, two writing friends and I have been reflecting on what we affectionately call The Questions: What am I proud of?What am I challenged by?What am I inspired by?What do I want? What am I committed to? Then we email our answers to each other. In the…

  • Decolonizing the Calendar with Circular Time Trackers

    Decolonizing the Calendar with Circular Time Trackers

    [Includes links to my favorite circular moon tracker and an annual circular calendar!] Of all the casualties of colonialism, lately I’ve been grieving the gridding-over of cyclical time. Long before linear, right-angled, and decidedly patriarchal Gregorian calendars invaded our desktops and kitchen walls, we knew when the tides were right to go fishing. We planted…

  • Writing class recommendations for January through March 2023 …and beyond

    I have found it so nourishing to participate in writing classes designed by and for women of color. For the first time in a year I won’t be participating in the next of Anne Liu Kellor’s excellent regeneration workshops; instead I’ve signed up for 2 classes with Darien Hsu Gee (Writing About the Women in…