Author Archives: Riba

About Riba

I'm a writer and a teacher, though I usually say it in reverse. I hope to find more of a balance between the two. ;-)

My newer blog

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Riba

Hello. :) I hope you’ll enjoy perusing here the 53 posts I wrote while I was 53. If you’d like to read more, please join me on my new WordPress blog: No Holds Barred: 54 at 54–All Things Mexico Thank … Continue reading →

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I Dream Murder (53)

Posted on April 1, 2012 by Riba

My flash fiction dream the other morning isn’t the first narrated dream I’ve had, only the first time I’ve woken with it more or less intact, the first time I’ve reached for my notebook upon waking, the first time the … Continue reading →

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I Dream Flash Fiction (52)

Posted on April 1, 2012 by Riba

Today I wake up a writer. The jumble of my morning dreaming ends with a short narrated dream. It has a male narrator, maybe in his late thirties, and the dream is almost whole when I wake. I know if … Continue reading →

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Being a Writer (51)

Posted on April 1, 2012 by Riba

I’ve discovered something I do love unequivocally about writing. I love being a writer. I love it when I feel like a writer. I love having lines of prose come to me in odd moments, placing the big cat bowl … Continue reading →

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I Don’t Want to Lose You

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Riba

Hi everyone. I need to post three more posts while I’m fifty-three. I have them crafted, just need to polish them a bit. These last three turned into a kind of little series (all by themselves). I’ll be posting them … Continue reading →

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Heaven Hands Me a Hiatus? (50)

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Riba

I get a late start on the day, and I realize I can’t let even that be okay. I let it ride me all morning like I am wrong, a crow hovering just overhead, scolding me. It nags at me … Continue reading →

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No Baby (49)

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Riba

I wake up Friday morning with a sentence in my head. “I’m never going to have a baby.” I always knew I wanted to be pregnant, knew I wanted to carry a baby inside me, grow round and heavy, even … Continue reading →

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Five Days (48)

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Riba

“Write about five days you would like to do over,” Maureen says. We’ve arrived for our Monday night writing workshop. The room still buzzes, takes time to quiet. (This was the kind of thing I couldn’t tolerate when I was … Continue reading →

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Little Old Men (47)

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Riba

The first time I saw the beach near Todos Santos, I felt like I’d traveled back through millenniums in the thirty minutes it took me to walk through the desert to reach the ocean. I moved across the untouched sand … Continue reading →

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The Abecedarian’s Abecedarian (46)

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Riba

All of us here in the room but not all of us here yet, I think choosing to be present now as we write dropping down entering in feeling the balls of my feet on the cold floor grounding myself … Continue reading →

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