Note: I wrote this piece some years ago for a small college writing competition – and won first place! And an update: this piece just won First Place in an online competition put on by Story Circle Network – thank you SCN for honoring women’s stories. “We too, like trees […]
Pre-COVID-19, I recently made one of the biggest decisions of my life…
Last weekend I participated in the Women’s March in Los Angeles. It was organized to be a sister march to one scheduled in Washington, DC. Its goal was…
I don’t know why, but I wrote my first poem when I was six. It was an ode to female beauty that started, “Her face was the color of peaches and cream, with strawberry juice in between.” Not exactly subtle, huh. Born already of stories about blushing princesses and sleeping beauties that so shape the young lives of women. I […]
