My Biography

Take My Hand by Sasha Porter Blue

Marsha (Sasha) C. Porter, an Art Therapist, lives in Minneapolis. Her essay about the 35W bridge collapse "Bridge of Sighs" has been recorded in the American Red Cross archives. Take My Hand is her first collection of essays.


photo credits - Elizabeth Lofgren

Take My Hand by Sasha Porter Blue
Painting by Marsha (Sasha) Porter


Painting by Sasha Porter Blue
Painting by Marsha (Sasha) Porter

Quotes from the stories of Take My Hand

"I got to be the stay-at-home mom, an abstraction within which I found incredible joys and within which I lost parts of myself, one after another-like jewels slipping off a necklace, bouncing through the gorgeous glittering gold sunscatters that are my children..."
From: "The Stay at Home Mom, Doesn't"

"It was raining as I drove to my lawyer's house to sign my divorce papers... and every time I turn onto his street I think the same thought..."
From: "Process"