about balanced on the edge
My sister, me, and a Lisa T, 1972
What I mean by the edge is the border between one state and another, the place where I am changing, growing, mutating, drifting. The edge is where I experiment with life, where I explore new boundaries.
The themes I write about are poetry, short fiction, art, video, family, dreams, spirituality, yoga, and travel; I delve into politics and social change when I’m especially moved.
Brief bio
I live in Georgia with my husband, two sons, and our dog Duffy. I’ve been a waitress, a lifeguard, a tutor on a film set, and a cashier, but mostly I have taught Spanish in the high school. A few years ago I stopped teaching Spanish and began a self-directed study of writing and yoga (I’ve practiced yoga for 25 years, and received a certificate to teach yoga in 2008). Now I write and practice yoga almost every day.
I studied English and Spanish at the University of Georgia, and received an MA in Spanish from Middlebury College’s program in Spain. After studying advanced technical translation at Georgia State University I became certified to translate from Spanish to English. This fall I’m beginning my second year at an MFA program in metro Atlanta.
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At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
The Four Quartets, Burnt Norton, Part II, TS Eliot
