Deborah Rose

“Thankfully, I was wrong about myself.”

That’s my six-word memoir. 

The story behind those six words is too many words for here.

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“Everyone in Portland is living a minimum of three lives. Everyone has at least three identities. They’re a grocery store checker, an anthropologist, and a biker guy. Or they’re a poet, a drag queen and a bookstore clerk.”   Katherine Dunn.  

I’m a writer,  a restless wanderer and a recent woodworker. 

or

I have a degree in English and Anthropology, a Masters in Women and Gender Studies and I still know nothing, not really. 

or

I take pictures, I cook, I block-print.

or

I’m an Irish girl (mostly) living in Oregon because I met a Portlander while travelling in Peru. 

Mostly, though

I read, I read, I read. 

….and dream sentences all my own…