The Journey
Journey: First complete draft LLyn De Danaan About 4100 words May 31, 2015 It had become a test of my spiritual strength to sleep through the night. It required fortitude just to close my eyes. Each...
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Daemon June 21, 2015 Short Fiction LLyn De Danaan About 6884 words You must visit the beach at dawn, at the moment when the sun is rising over the horizon east of the city. First look …...
View ArticlePOWER: second draft August 17, 2015
POWER LLyn De Danaan August 17, 2015 About 5600 Words They are foxed and grimy, so much so that they stick to my hands. Their creases and bent corners make them nearly impossible to shuffle. I manage....
View ArticleThe Glorious Pain in the Ass of Travel: February 2016
From 30,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean No doubt I have been inordinately influenced by my recent reading of Geoff Dyer whose discourse on D.H. Lawrence’ travels and his own have made me reconsider...
View ArticleKaren Maria James: a very personal tribute to a life well led
Karen Maria James: a very personal tribute to a life well led By LLyn De Danaan February 27, 2016 We always said we’d grow old together. We did…we just didn’t notice. For we whose glory days were...
View Article2016 Speaking Engagements (as of March 3, 2016)
Elma, Washington April 12 Chehalis, Washington April 12 Ephrata, Washington April 26 Moses Lake, Washington April 27 Leavenworth, Washington April 28 Bainbridge Island, Washington April 30 Port...
View ArticleSleep, Putter, Die March 6, 2016
SLEEP, PUTTER, DIE LLyn De Danaan March 6, 2016 I’ve been floundering around, as in writhing in my own existential quasi-despair, for some time, and the recent death of a close friend finally did me...
View ArticleA Note on the Passing of Rudy Martin March 2016
My Snowman’s Burning Down Rudy Martin, Willie Parsons, and I were deans together at The Evergreen State College in the early to mid 1970s. Rudy had been one of the 18 planners and schemers who worked...
View ArticleSpoil and Gob: The Remainders of Life March 2016
Spoil and Gob: The Remainders of Life The author with her father and mother as they inspect a model of the house he later built. by LLyn De Danaan It could begin with fear of...
View ArticleSaturday March 12, 2016
Much thanks to Marilyn Frasca for her journal workshop today. Fracking Push deep into your soul Don’t hold back Breathe into that space you’ve made And see what happens. Bored Bound by my diary and...
View ArticleAll The Dogs Died and The People Got Old
All the Dogs Died and the People Got Old The Ash tree had never looked so grand. It was a burning bush of red-orange, a color that glowed, seemingly from an inner source though it was clearly the...
View ArticleNew Verse: March 2017
Meta-Foray* at Character’s Corner March 7, 2017 The basket that she puts before me Gives off memory of county fairs. Deep fried things all smell the same no matter where you are. “What are we...
View ArticleAll the Dogs Died and the People Got Old
All the Dogs Died and the People Got Old LLyn De Danaan June 2017 The Ash tree had never looked so grand. It was a burning bush of red-orange, a color that glowed, seemingly from an inner source...
View ArticleTwo Hills
Two Hills For my cousin Pete Patterson June 2017 There was a standpipe On the highest rise, Above my Grandma’s house. And to the west, a cemetery Always neatly shorn Forbidding to a child born from its...
View ArticleNo Stranger to Change: The Oyster Bay of Katie Gale
No Stranger to Change: The Oyster Bay of Katie Gale Presented at NW History meetings in Portland in Spring 2014 LLyn De Danaan, Ph.D. Emerita, The Evergreen State College June 2014 “History is usually...
View ArticleJune 2017: Forthcoming
Lots going on in my writing world. Have been submitting stuff. A story, a poem, an essay. A poem appeared this spring in Tod Marshall’s anthology WA 129. Tod is Washington State poet laureate. I was...
View ArticleMy Grandma
My grandma sat beside the stove and slope-rimmed scuttle Enveloped in a wooden rocker and an Afghan shawl or throw. Her hair was black as coal. And always was. Her legs were saplings clothed in...
View ArticleGenetics Lesson
Genetics Lesson LLyn De Danaan June 2017 For Family They pile on To greet Like puppies Warm and smooth, some soothing brown or honey tinged They touch or brush So hair or finger tips can meet And each...
View ArticleChicken Sandwiches at the Root Beer Stand in Marion
Chicken Sandwiches at the Root Beer Stand in Marion For Cousin Cherri June 2017 In summer heat, and bored with euchre or parcheesi, Someone would say, usually my Nan, “Let’s go to the root beer stand...
View ArticleYes, Stephanie, There is a Santa Claus
Yes, Stephanie, There is a Santa Claus LLyn De Danaan September 2017 Years ago, maybe two decades back, my parents, Doris and Bill Patterson, were interviewed for a study Stephanie Coontz was making on...
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