When these prose pieces were written

This is just to say that I rewrote and endlessly revised these West Marin prose pieces so I don't have exact creation dates, just the year, and I chose to post them all during the second half of this year, as they were all thematically related. I also had a lot of free time recovering from the car accident in June, so I worked on these pieces, to keep my mind occupied as I convalesced. It was also a way to collect family folklore, ever an ongoing process.

When these pieces were transcribed to the electronic publication format arena a decade later, I was also posting pieces in my blog thematically vs. by creation date. So creation dates are relative.

Once I went back to school, then another revision process began. And more versions were spawned. I began to lose track of all the dross and bits and pieces—first drafts, for example. Then the quest was: how to deepen the pieces. How to push the edged of the envelope of prose. I was terrified of prose. This was an attempt to quell my fear of prose and also stay true to the poetic voice.

I also was moonlighting at UC Berkeley in the Celtic Studies department, while going back to school at San Francisco State, and adjusting to urban life in the Bay Area. I was holding tight onto the past, while bootstrapping my way into the world of prose. So, there are a lot of Celtic references as I reclaimed my past and made history personal. — MH 3/18

• The Christmas We Had Two Trees (Prose) v2
• The Christmas We Had Two Tress rev 3 
• An Inarticulate Hunger
• Blue Willow
• White Deer
• Celtic Fringe
• The Sky is Falling
• Huckleberries
• Anim Chara