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Already it is difficult to explain. Has it been ten days? Two months? Did I make mistakes? Miss opportunities? Sleep through anything? The graduation ceremony for the Class of 2006 commences [...]

JM’s craft talk blows me out of the water and I start to cry right there in the lecture hall. At the end I ask him, “Do you think we’re all junkies for that moment of reckoning?” and he smiles, [...]

Sometime between evening of Day Five and the afternoon of Day Six (which was Friday) the intensity rises, tightening like tire rubber expanding under pressure. We live in apartment-style dorms [...]

Bringing meaning to a moment, an exercise in class: Spring Break 2000 One hiker, already, dead. We hike for two more days, tasting the salt of our mortality like slugs; hesitant. Into the valley [...]

From a memory acquisition exercise in class: Since the open-backed stairs are carpeted on all sides, unmistakable marmalade magenta wrapping around dense slabs of walnut wood, there is enough [...]

I have stepped off the edge of the planet. Suddenly everything I have ever done grows small, but not diminutive. Where once my writing was a star I gazed upon with occasional bursts of optimistic [...]

At almost every instant things happen that I cannot believe. And here, now, in a dorm room ninety minutes inland of the Pacific Ocean, I sit half-buzzed on alcohol, my other half blissed out on [...]

It is difficult, if not impossible, to put into words the experience of my first full day of residency at Pacific University. At the risk of breaking some of my own blogging parameters, I will be [...]

I go to the MFA Potluck wearing my Pendleton wool plaid button up and a fleece vest. It is in the sixties and the air is cool compared to my humid Southern mountains, so while others wear short [...]

This morning I woke up full, the joyful weight of childhood memories and the bright faces of good people still lingering behind my eyes. Last night I attended a reunion with my elementary [...]