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Fruitful Work (Under Less Than Optimal Conditions)

by Darcy Wiley | Sep 15, 2019 | Self-Care

For two seasons, I work away at the keyboard, writing the simplest sounds and phrases for people who don’t know them yet. My students, international employees at local warehouses, are the ones who turn America’s internet orders into real stuff that shows up on our...

Writing Small While the Kids Are Small {A 2013 Retrospective}

by Darcy Wiley | Jan 5, 2014 | Sweet Tea

It had been three and a half years since I’d had a baby. I’d forgotten how my words would forget me, at least the written kind. They seemed to go down the drain with the dishwater or get lodged in the cushions of the couch where I sat for hours a day nursing the new...