On the evening of the Loma Prieta Quake in 1989, one of the concerns everyone had was to contact family and friends and let them know we were OK. We got in touch with my mom and grandma so they could pass on the news to our other relatives. I connected with some friends. Of course everyone was trying to do the same so the lines were often busy ( Read more... )

I expect some arrows to come my way in relation to my memoir writing. I wasn't prepared for the collateral damage ( Read more... )

Finally, I have that baby in my continuing story at No Longer Quivering: Hard Day's Night.

The latest installment in my story for the No Longer Quivering blog has been posted.

When The Levee Breaks covers my late pregnancy, homeless and sleeping in a friend's cement-floored, unheated laundry room. I have added some detail into the story so even if you read an earlier version you will find some new material.

My latest guest blog entry, entitled What It's Like To Sing The Blues, has been posted on No Longer Quivering.

This project of memoir writing is a curious one because I am forced to remember how I thought and felt about people and events at the time. I've already had one present-day disagreement with someone who was unhappy about what I wrote about her. I know her in the present in a very different way than I knew her in the past. But I am writing about my ( Read more... )

I wrote this a few years after I left my ex husband ( Read more... )

The Mahasraya story (so far, still have more to write):

Meeting

Falling In Love

Still working on connecting this chronologically to the next set, basically we were together in Chicago for awhile and then moved to L.A. where I eventually got pregnant--then we lost our apartment:

Pregnant In a Laundry Room

Childbirth Led To More Violence

Should ( Read more... )

Chicago 1976 April ( Read more... )

April 1976 in Keokuk, Iowa

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