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beauty and honesty are what I try for.

Hi, I’m Mary. I love connecting with people and being creative.

I hope that we can connect here, in this little corner, by way of words and art.

The way I grew up, home is less about a concrete place, and more about a sense of belonging. Let’s find home together.

Abnormal Normal

A memoir piece.   There are periods in life that seem much longer than they were in the reality of the calendar year. There is lived time, imprinted time, contrasting experiences, and the intensity of events that seem to burn themselves in a psyche, becoming contractures in memory. Contractures are a type of scar tissue that…

Plant Your Fruit Trees

“My father said, plant your fruit trees.” Ruth Van Reken wrote, recounting a story about her father’s gardening habit, in-spite of their inevitable moves. These words leapt off the page and lodged in me. I’d been combing for clues to help me understand why certain relationships and ways of relating to people and places felt…

Tamarind Princess

A story about childhood observations

Jazz

A poem about bedtime.

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