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Writing About Place: “Where I’m From”

/ Elizabeth Gaucher / 2 Comments

I am from pastel and oil, acrylic and watercolor, pencil and ink, wood and ruler, hammer and nail, chisel, chainsaw, miter, drill, screw.

I am from Mr. Rogers and Bob Marley, Uncle Wiggly and The Rainbow Goblins, The Monkey King and Thumbelina.

I am from a marriage and a divorce, love and its opposite, the familiar clang of the world at its end and at its beginning, splitting apart and then reformed, broken and whole, the consistency of two people working out their distances across town and across a river and across a home and across a little girl.

Fascinated?  Visit the Essays on Childhood website to read the entire piece of writing and to connect with writer Valley Haggard, the founder of Richmond Young Writers!

Many thanks go out to Valley for her generous permission to share her writing on Esse Diem and Essays on Childhood.

Writing Guidelines & Current Schedule | Essays on Childhood

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Writing Guidelines & Current Schedule | Essays on Childhood

The essays themselves will continue to appear here on Esse Diem, but the schedule, guidelines, and information about the writers has moved to a new site!  Please click on the link above to find out more.

Never fear, all details about the Essays on Childhood initiative will continue to appear here as well.  The dedicated site for the EOC project simply allows greater clarity for someone who may be interested exclusively in that aspect of this blog.

Thank you for your support and patience as this new tool develops.  The feedback so far has been quite positive, and interest in writing for EOC continues to grow.  When you view the current schedule, you will see there is still a window of time to join the latest group of writers, so do consider it if it is at all in your heart and mind.

You never know until you try……..