Wendy C. Ortiz

Professions :

Essayist

Born :

May 16, 1973

I'd like to imagine that "dreamoir" becomes a subgenre of nonfiction, maybe ultimately because I'd love to read many more dreamoirs by other writers - poets and memoirists especially.

nonfiction imagine poet

I wish to be a cat. I like to imagine I was a cat in a past life. by Wendy C. Ortiz

I wish to be a cat. I like to imagine I was a cat in a past life.

cat wish past

I love indices! They are poetry in and of themselves, depending o... by Wendy C. Ortiz

I love indices! They are poetry in and of themselves, depending on the book.

book

My relationship with my mother has always felt like the most complicated relationship of my life. I know I have a lot more writing to do on this.

complicated-relationship mother writing

I imagine there's an undercurrent of the impact of early religious teachings and my break from what I was taught and expected to perform if I wanted to be considered normal in my family of origin.

impact teaching religious

Overwhelm, panic, and wanting to flee were states of being in my everyday life as I tried to figure out life on my own, in the city I had grown up in, after an entire life made in Olympia, Washington for the eight years previous.

eight cities years

The women in my family - my grandmother and my mother - have been both sources of comfort and terror. Protection was not always available.

protection mother comfort

I pay attention as much as I can. I try to surround myself with other women with magical powers and a lot falls under the heading "magical powers."

trying pay fall

Synchronicities fall under the "magic" heading to me. by Wendy C. Ortiz

Synchronicities fall under the "magic" heading to me.

synchronicity magic fall

To me, magic is everywhere. by Wendy C. Ortiz

To me, magic is everywhere.

magic

Cats connote sexuality in standard dream dictionaries. by Wendy C. Ortiz

Cats connote sexuality in standard dream dictionaries.

sexuality cat dream

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