Gifford, Jan

Jan has been writing since diaries had locks with tiny gold keys. Her journals continue to fill her cedar chest. Jan's family and friendships, old and new, the people she meets in pottery classes, church groups, yoga practice, poetry class and writing groups shape her way of thinking, her personality and unquestionably, her writing. Twenty-three years ago she enrolled her 9-year-old son, Tyler, in a pottery class. When she saw how much fun it was to "play" with clay, she enrolled in a class of her own. She has been a potter ever since. It was there that a remarkable relationship developed with...