Meg Robson Mahoney
Writing
Exit Stage Left
“I walk up the ramp to my stage, past a 10-foot poster I hung for my students—and myself—when the stage was new: I dance because I want to scream. The walls seem to echo the embedded noise of children running up the ramp to shed their classroom stillnesses along with their shoes and socks, disheveled or neat, before rocketing into the space.”
Mother, May I?
Together we reasoned her slips away, but that couldn’t save the names of plants she’d known or the twists of plot in a book. This is not a story about dementia, but I can’t leave the dementia out. It played a role in how I caught my own reflection in the mirror of family.
Published & nominated for Best of the Net 2021 by Lumiere Review. Awarded Best Non-Fiction, Write on the Sound 2020. Not currently available online.
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Mother, May I?
Together we reasoned her slips away, but that couldn’t save the names of plants she’d known or the twists of plot in a book. This is not a story about dementia, but I can’t leave the dementia out. It played a role in how I caught my own reflection in the mirror of family.
Nominated for Best of the Net 2021; awarded Best Non-Fiction, Write on the Sound 2020
I’m a writer, currently working on a memoir about discovering that the silence and acquiescence I learned growing up female lay in wait to destroy my well-being and marriage. And about my fight to change.
I was a dancer, taught dance in public schools, and advocated for arts in education.
Recent forays into territories unknown have me cruising the waters of western Washington and the Canadian Gulf Islands with my husband.
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