My Bucket List

Writing Goals Finish my memoir and seek traditional publishing routes. Complete a cohesive work of poetry to publish before release of memoir. Work on something funny like A Day of Musings With @Bookmark_Terry. Very Important Non-Writing-Related-But-Equally-Attainable Zone Improve my health dramatically. Enjoy gyms and all the amazing machines there, which I do. Swim. Walk a lot. Be Terry in training starting n-o-w. In the Not-Too-Wing-Nuttish…

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Grace

The day we met, class was starting and I faced you, sat opposite you in circle. You were not shy about showing people, you said. Still, you weren’t speaking to me and I had not ventured out into the world since my brother died. I was shy, nervous, my balance jarred with every smile, name and conversation. When I unexpectedly saw the scar left by…

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