Category: Women Writer Artists
The Writer Who Began Quilting
I inherited my need to create from my mother. During the 1950’s she wasn’t content to sit quietly crocheting doilies or knitting sweaters; she Tolle-painted our TV trays and flocked our Christmas tree pink. As a teenager in the late sixties I played and wrote desperate love songs on my twenty-five dollar guitar and when [...]
Standing Up and Speaking Out: Hip Hop Apsara
A blizzard in central Europe delayed my last flight to Phnom Penh by 30 hours, so I was sleeping poolside at my hotel when I got a text from Saem Vun, a singer with a musical group called The Messenger Band. I have known Saem since I chanced upon a concert she and her bandmates [...]
Childbirth: The Inspiration to Write
Even as a child, I wanted to be a writer. I wrote an endless amount of poems and stories about wolves and horses. I also read a lot, and if I liked a particular author, I would hunt down every book, every item they had ever written. But to me personally, the writing game is [...]
Initiation into Authorship: Calamity to Creation
I was never meant to be a writer. Or so I believed until… After virtually forty years of training and practising the art of sculpture, my life took a surprising new course. It is said that a Shaman must endure some physical calamity – a fall from a high rock face, breaking every bone in [...]
