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Category: Memoir Writing

The Three Wise Men: A Glen Ivy Christmas Story

December 21, 2021December 21, 2021 by Sandramardene

A Christmas windstorm clattered the dry skirts of palm fronds. Rain blew in from the Pacific Ocean and over the Santa Ana Mountains at our backs to fill Coldwater Creek

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Peter’s Story: In Search of His Norwegian Biological Family

August 18, 2018 by Sandramardene

The Heronry

June 7, 2016 by Sandramardene

I thought my father had forgotten the incident at Moses Lake… … Continue readingThe Heronry

A Heart for Any Fate

January 16, 2016 by Sandramardene

“West… The sound of a wish in a single word.” Linda Crew, A Heart for Any Fate … Continue readingA Heart for Any Fate

This could be my dad in those old school rawhide snowshoes, and this country is very similar to the Cascade wilderness where our family did our Christmas Tree hunting.

Snowshoe Christmas

December 25, 2015 by Sandramardene

Only one person fell into an ice well that day, and that was me. … Continue readingSnowshoe Christmas

"Kiger Mustangs" Watercolor by Cheryl Renee Long

The Red Horse

December 2, 2015 by Sandramardene

Lance kept me from choosing a dark fate that day. … Continue readingThe Red Horse

Enchantment: Remembering Back Into Maxfield Parrish

March 11, 2015July 25, 2018 by Sandramardene

That memory took me to such a deep, beginning place as a child. … Continue readingEnchantment: Remembering Back Into Maxfield Parrish

Back Home Again

June 2, 2013 by Sandramardene

I sort of stumbled across John Denver’s “Back Home Again” in my music library, and epiphanized that it might work to create a two-hanky family home again video. … Continue readingBack Home Again

Fire Dancer

January 16, 2013 by Sandramardene

I asked her what learning fire poi has meant to her and her healing journey. … Continue readingFire Dancer

One Thing Right

November 8, 2012June 12, 2018 by Sandramardene

Sometimes my mind needs to drift. I get too much going on, grading papers, presenting workshops and classes where it is the power of personal focus that draws people into

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