Learning to Drown

By Helen M. Sina

Learning to Drown shares the author’s experiences as a six-year old in eastern Oregon in 1948. The author’s father, trained as an engineer, decided to become a farmer. Her mother, with a college degree in Latin, kept everything together—food, duties, fun, music, and love—in an old farmhouse that had no running water, no electricity, no telephone, and no indoor toilet.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Sep 24, 2021
• ISBN: 9781665537988

Helen M. Sina

Early life on small farms taught the author to value solving problems. From her college-educated parents she learned to value education.Discovering and helping then became central to her teaching experiences. She has taught writing, reading, creative writing, drama, and orchestra to junior high school, high school, and community college students. Privately, she has taught violin and viola to students from the ages of 1 1/2 to 85. She develops yearly string concerts with varying themes such as “ In Dreams,” “Mostly Movies,” and “Of Wings and Strings.” Teaching community college students who were studying the “trades,” Helen came to understand that, like them, she is a maker—a “poem maker.”

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LEARNING TO

DROWN

Helen M. Sina

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Published by AuthorHouse 09/22/2021

ISBN: 978-1-6655-3799-5 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-6655-3798-8 (e)

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Contents

Moving In

Saturday Bath

Sunday Shirt

Dancing with Dust

This Little Light

New Dress

Wheatdiving

Spinning the Sun

Riding the Flood

Hog Heaven

Kitchen Table

Spare Room

Chicken Dance

Singing Lessons

Falling Through Air

Winter Legs

Skating in Rubber Boots

Jumping the Past

Red Mitten

Spring Cleaning

Mosquito Talk

Traveling Outside Time

Moving On