What’s going On

I earned my MFA at St Mary’s in the spring of 2023. after. having returned from a I leave of absence. The leave was supposed to let me do some bucket list traveling with my husband who is undergoing chemotherapy for lung cancer. we had our eyes on a trip to New Zealand and Australia, but Covid……….. and then covid variants again….. now we are going for a rv. trip to the wilderness parks a round Big Sur between chemo. I am devastated to be missing our on a poetry craft class with Aria Aber. I am going through Annie Finch’s book, A Poets Craft, and have a Tuesday morning zoom with 2 fellow poets from the MFA cohort. I need to stay involved with poetry. I took Ellen Bass’s 4th workshop, and classes with Molly Spencer . Education continues.

So there is a black jazz singer named Sandra Cross, my mythic alter ego. and I just learned 200 people named Sandra Cross live in or near Los Angeles. Can this be true? Too many doppelgängers? Do I have to change my name? check it out on google. Have you goggled your name lately? Where is the Cheshire Cat?

9/8/21 - Gracie is getting so big… and is fierce…. we keep trying to train her to not bite. I guess that’s how she played with the siblings she never got to be with. She sleeps on my chest at night. She is scheduled to be spayed in a few weeks. She loves to chase wadded up paper.

7/08/21 - Time to chill the champagne!! “One or more “ of my poems submitted to the Able Muse Write Prize for poetry have been lifted out of the slush pile for further consideration!! I consider this a big step….. more to follow…

7/07/21 Grace is now an 8 week 2 lb, kitty, full of fierce play and still too cute. learned the litter box, and eating solid food. weaned. has long legs that get longer over night.

My poem I Rose From the Song of the Sea has been accepted for publication by the Marin Poetry Center Anthology,

I will be hosting some beach poetry days this summer with my classmates… contact me if you are interested.