May 31, 2005
Tonight was the reading for the students in the memoir writing classes that I just finished at the UW Extension Writers Program. For the reading, I reworked a piece that I wrote early in the year. Before taking this class, I had trouble writing multiple drafts. My teacher, Laura Kalpakian, and my classmates have, through [...]
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May 29, 2005
For many musicians, dancers and craftspeople in the Pacific Northwest, Memorial Day Weekend is all about Seattle’s Northwest Folklife Festival. Begun in 1972, the original festival’s concept was to provide a public forum where the traditional and ethnic communities and artists of the Northwest Region of the National Park Service (Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and [...]
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