These are places where I have lived:
Baltimore, MD
Brooklyn, NY
Portland, OR
Oak Park, IL
Chicago, IL
Albuquerque, NM
Denver, CO
Alexandria, VA
Boulder, CO
Washington, DC
These are the things I did there:
Got an MFA and started teaching college
Made the shift from girl to boy and started teaching school
Full apart and exploded my life
Had a bunch of kids (well, not HAD) (second-parented) and wrote a different book
Worked for a small publisher, tried karate, and started college
Worked in a different bookstore and wrote a book
Worked in a bookstore again
Sold “handmade” “American” “artisan” “crafts”
Learned to climb trees and worked in a bookstore
Got born and went to live in an apartment full of parrots
These are the things I like best:
Oceans
Estuaries
Books
Kittens
Really awful unicorn tattoos
