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About Me

I’m a…Writer | Eldercare worker and CNA | Reader | Mother of a therapy dog named Eleanor Roosevelt | Former tech VP, Vegetarian Times answer lady, video producer, museum designer, short order cook, and substitute wedding hostess | Darn good godmother (and author of Teaching Maggie) | Assistant editor, Another Chicago Magazine|Founder, Shannaghe Residency  

Read about care work, Chicago Sun Times: “Celebrate CNA Week. Then Pay Us More.”

 

Things We Leave Behind

Everywhere I turn someone has left something, and behind each thing, a story. I scan my world every day. Is this a mistake? Is this a statement? Has someone left in a rush?

An art installation sparked my interest in the practice of leaving things. BLM–2018.  

A low-slung white barn set in rolling Maine farmland.

They left behind a barn. We made a residency, called Shannaghe. 

I imagine her at sunset, juice sticky on her fingers, and a drop in her eye.