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No This But This: New Novel Just Released

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A Dance in the Sky

  John Weber has been a presence in my life since 1954, our high school years. Even in his absences he has been present. This new book contains my memories of presence with him. The writing took me all that time. Even while I was veiled, a Catholi…

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A Memoir of Early Childhood

Just before Christmas 2019 a box filled with  copies of my newest book arrived at my door. Here it is! A book of stories from my early childhood when I was Mary Jane Lore and my world consisted in the boundary waters of Minnesota and Ontario, …

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The Blue Shawl

Sometimes a story weaves in and out of a writer’s life for many years and is rewritten time and again as new insights and realizations come to light. Each re-write develops a different thread of the weave, adds dimension, emphasizes certain colors over…

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The Blue Shawl

Sometimes a story weaves in and out of a writer’s life for many years and is rewritten time and again as new insights and realizations come to light. Each re-write develops a different thread of the weave, adds dimension, emphasizes certain colors over…

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Remember and Forget

Yesterday was my sister’s birthday. She would have been sixty-four. Today I am more in her presence than I was then. Then, yesterday, I kept forgetting. “Oh, it is Liz’s Birthday,” my mind would say, and then even as I tried to grasp the memory, it was…

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Remember and Forget

Yesterday was my sister’s birthday. She would have been sixty-four. Today I am more in her presence than I was then. Then, yesterday, I kept forgetting. “Oh, it is Liz’s Birthday,” my mind would say, and then even as I tried to grasp the memory, it was…

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Distractions

I know so many new babies and babies that will soon be here and the last few months I’ve been going nuts making baby dresses.  Not the kind of creating I usually do, a great obsession for the evenings.  Here are just a few things for my new niece who will be born in about […]

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RGAC SUMMER CLASSES AND SUMMER ART CAMPS JUST ANNOUNCED!!!

Drink and Draw: Art a la Carte at Rogue Gallery and Art Center

Read this post to learn more about art education opportunities for adults and kids,, studio time for printmakers, Drink & Draw: Art a la Carte, Free Family Saturdays, and Jefferson Baroque Orchestra’s open rehearsals in the Main Gallery…

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