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Smith Magazine’s Six-word Memoir Project (as heard on NPR)…and now…Story Circle Network Podcast

Six-word memoir was hot this year. And, it’s fun as well.
Some time back I phoned in my 6-word memoir:
Country girl roamed.
Home grazing sweetest.

and my 6-word description of “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary”
A downhome family
lovestory beyond death.

for the May Story Circle Network Podcast. Frankly, I’d forgotten all about it. Then, this morning on the Independent Authors Guild [...]

Rishikesh Memories with links for exploring

Listening to NPR yesterday I heard a long forgotten place name on the globe: Rishikesh.
I traveled to Rishikesh in the mid-1970s in the middle of my Peace Corps tour in Ghana. Imagine: West Africa, Egypt (stopover), 6 weeks of Northern Indian travel on third class trains, then back by way of the Middle East [...]