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Good-bye to Our Winky Dog

On January 13, 2022 By Regina AllenIn Uncategorized3 Comments

“A dog comes to you and lives with you in your house, but you do not therefore own her, as you do not own the rain, or the trees, or the laws which pertain to them.” --Mary Oliver

Grateful

On November 19, 2021December 23, 2021 By Regina AllenIn Exploration of Self & World, Value My Own IdeasLeave a comment

Sometimes life gets in the way and the best you can do is plug along.

Origin Story

On July 7, 2018January 21, 2021 By Regina AllenIn Voice & Place, Work In ProgressLeave a comment

She came up out of the mud where the Mississippi River washes the continent’s silt into the Gulf of Mexico. The Mississippi Sound was her place of birth, her embryo, her mama’s womb. She knew the familiar cadence of languages mixed as in a boiling pot. There was the French providing spice, the savory meats …

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AirB&B

On June 24, 2018January 21, 2021 By Regina AllenIn Memoir, Voice & PlaceLeave a comment

  Recently, I learned an astonishing thing. My grandmother’s house where I spent my childhood summers has been made into an AirB&B. Who’d a thunk it! Helen’s house is a simple yellow brick ranch home. To the passer by it is nothing special. The house is a small three-bedroom, two bath that sits atop a …

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Baby Girl Grows Up

On June 29, 2015January 21, 2021 By Regina AllenIn Genre ExplorationLeave a comment

https://animoto.com/play/WqzSC8CeAIc5hnziICr0LQ  

How I Came to be Here and Why it Matters

On January 15, 2012 By Regina AllenIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

"Women, then, have not had a dog's chance of writing poetry. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one's own." - Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own From the time I was a very young girl I had an ideal of living far away from any …

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