Category: Writing

• Mothers’ Day

  I entered room 25C with a single yellow rosebud in one hand and my lime purse in the other bearing the SF Chronicle Sunday paper and a small Tupperware with two brown-butter chocolate chip cookies.  Mom was half sitting up, trying to get out of bed to take the step to the portable commode, but…

  River Brown

  2023

  On Writing, Writing

  writing

• Today I Wrote to the President

  Dear President Biden, I support all your efforts you’ve made over the years to enact gun safety laws and I share your heartache over the mass shootings in our country as well as all the child gun deaths.  As you probably know, every time there is a mass shooting, gun sales go up, because people…

  River Brown

  2023

  Writing

• Intro: Peter Elbow’s Surreal Vision of Social Reality

  We are underwater. Blub, blub. Did you say something? Static Communication. Blah, blah, blah, blah…Huh? Until: More personal, imaginative creative writing… People find themselves in a group where their words are heard. Pg. 23 “they want to say things that are complex and difficult to express which they had previously learned to ignore as it…

  River Brown

  2023

  River, Writing

  Social issues