Janet Miles

"Now's your chance to participate in the creative process by posting ideas for me to write about. Today's theme is "family gatherings." I'll be soliciting ideas for relatives, family friends, platonic partners, birth families, families of choice, alternative family arrangements, elders and children, catching up on family news, cooking, playing games, coming of age, happy announcements, inappropriately timed personal bombshells, those awful epic fights that everyone dreads, feeding people, home and hearth, people as home, childhood homes, large gathering centers such as parks, toys, favorite foods, dressy clothes, heirlooms, memories, traditions, weddings, funerals, holidays, people skills, family secrets, family trees, ancestors, genealogy, and poetic forms in particular."