Category Archives: Announcements

You have been given tools for analysis (the YouTube videos) and these will be useful to prepare for our brief Zoom discussions or responses you send to me or each other. But consider more creative responses: These, too, may be … Continue reading →

https://wapoetlaureate.org/ Become familiar with the work Claudia Castro Luna has been doing. Read her thoughts. See her Washington State map.

Read about her in Wikipedia article and beyond. There is at least one collection of her stories available in English: Nona’s Room. If you are enchanted by Woman in Green, take a look.

https://www.chesterton.org/who-is-this-guy/

You will enjoy reading these newsletters. Go online and subscribe. Stimulating, beautifully curated thoughts, poems, short fiction for today.https://www.brainpickings.org/

.Watch YouTube lecture “Analysis of a Short Story.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uR3zW_6vx0 This is about 11 minutes long. You may want to take notes. This lecture will give you a framework for reading and responding to the stories you will read. .Literary Elements.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy5LU_3gUs4 Very … Continue reading →

Enjoying short fiction:  study and writing practice LLyn De Danaan, facilitator   Enjoy reading fiction? Like lively conversations? Love writing?   We will read and discuss one or two short stories/or listen to spoken word fiction /each week.   Most … Continue reading →

Next scheduled talk is October 17, 2018 in Olympia  

In Shelton. Humanities Washington presentation by LLyn De Danaan. Topic: What Does it Mean to be Human?

Yes, Stephanie, There is a Santa Claus LLyn De Danaan September 2017 Years ago, maybe two decades back, my parents, Doris and Bill Patterson, were interviewed for a study Stephanie Coontz was making on parenting in the post-war era. I … Continue reading →