Author Archive: Maureen McQuerry
Life Disrupted: A Source Of Creation
A month ago we moved. We left a community where we’d been deeply rooted for the last thirty years. We left wide skies and open fields of the high shrub steppe for a forested island near Seattle. The move brings us closer to family, to grandkids, to big city opportunities, but wrenches me from the […]
Every Story Is A Survival Story
For as long as I can recall I’ve been trying to save things. I remember clearly the baby robin that fell out of its nest. My mother and I fed him and kept him in a birdcage, so a cat couldn’t get him, right under the cherry tree he fell from in our backyard. Every […]
How Fairytales Can Deepen Themes in Our Writing
When I was little, my mother read me fairytales. I remember Andrew Lang’s books, The Tall Book of Fairytales, and a peculiar story about a girl who jumped rope and could skip through a key hole and light as a feather on dandelion thistle. It took me years to track down Elsie Piddock Skips in […]
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