Midnight. Below my deck, like fallen stars, the cluster of green, red, and white lights roar, barely moving toward me along Havana Channel. Yellow-white satellites behind the cluster make up a log boom constellation, and I know another horizontal forest is on its way to the city to become paper, walls, and sawdust...This is how ghosts are built...Dreams and nightmares crowd the country moving to the city. I try to remember moving on, how the excitement rushes ahead and peace settles behind, and we're always somewhere between -- amid stuff and clutter of our passing -- all that we might or might not see, sucked along in the wake of our laboring... Marion Blue Phone: 360-341-1630 Business Name: Blue & Ude Writers' Services Box 145, 4249 Nuthatch Way, Clinton, WA 98236 Email: blueyude@whidbey.com www.oneworldjourneys.com www.blueudewritersservices.com   Bio: Marian Blue's award-winning journalism, essays, fiction, and poetry appear in publications such as: The Christian Science Monitor, Colorado Review, Snowy Egret, ACM (Another Chicago Magazine), Raven Chronicles, Tiller and the Pen (anthology/Eighth Moon Press), and A Hundred White Daffodils (Graywolf Press). She is an editor/writer for One World Journeys (www.oneworldjourneys.com), an online production combining wilderness expeditions and environmental education. Marian teaches creative writing and literature for Skagit Valley College and Writers Digest Schools; she is partner of Blue & Ude Writers' Services (www.blueudewritersservices.com). Teaching Experience: What do you teach? Creative writing (fiction, poetry, essay), literature (film as lit, Shakespeare), and communications (including mass media, interpersonal communications, etc.) Where do you teach? Skagit Valley College, South Whidbey Center, Kens Korners, Clinton, WA & Writers Digest Schools, Cincinnati, Ohio Describe your philosophy of teaching: Students are my greatest source of discovery; I've never taught without learning more than the students, both about myself and about the world. If, in turn, I can teach two concepts (both in the classroom and in my writing) -- (1) that the world doesn't contain right and wrong but simply the unique and the individual and (2) that we gain the greatest personal power and freedom by conveying respect, power and freedom to others -- then I consider myself successful. How do you know when your students are learning? They challenge me. How long have you taught? College level and community education: 10 years Substitute taught in private schools in the Caribbean: 2 years Marian Blue www.blueudewritersservices.com www.oneworldjourneys.com 360-341-1630 The greatest journeys start through an open mind.