What Just Happened : Bonventura Press : 9780578875910 : 0578875918 : 08 Apr 2021 : "What Just Happened is a poetic chronicle of a life richly lived." -Keith Cushman, author of D. H. Lawrence at Work. What Just Happened, Barbara Baillet Moran's first collection of poetry and stories in verse, offers a flavorful blend of tales that reveal a well-seasoned life. Beginning during World War II and winding through arduous decades to the present day, Moran recalls images from an observant childhood and adolescent awakenings. Her recollections about marriage and motherhood are provocative and comic, as are memories of the many unique individuals she met during a quarter-century of entertaining guests on two university campuses. Moran plays with language-puns, rhymes, alliteration, and invented words. A chapter called "Not Just About the Food" is a banquet of responses to food: the poetic essence of Soup, seductive nature of the orange, nobility of the lemon, tang of Moroccan sumac, and tart