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Tonight Eve’s Night Out is a platform of bravery. We are small group, just barely a dozen this time, but each reader is so honest and full of pitter-patter courage. I read my poems for [...]

The young man’s face is painfully pimpled and adolescent. He stands at the counter, a foot taller than his mother, as they disagree about whether or not he should eat a bagel. “After all that [...]

Moxa smoke curls around my left wrist and up my forearm in finger-like swirls. It is ancient mugwort, dried and rolled in China then shipped to the US to compliment acupuncture treatments. The [...]

I wake in pre-dawn darkness. The cicadas, finally, are asleep. I, however, am not. Which is why I cannot help but get out of bed and write the sentence that swirls around in my brain. It’s the [...]

It’s difficult to explain, really, except to just come out and say it: I went to a wedding and a funeral in the same weekend, at the same place, with the same people. Our community has lifted the [...]

“It’s a solo sport,” my advisor tells me about the writing life. This, in response to my observation that sometimes I feel near the edge of insanity. “It doesn’t get any easier,” another faculty [...]

Riley is more soft spoken over the phone; tender, almost. He’s depressed. New York was too hot. So hot he couldn’t think. So hot he rode the subway for free air-conditioning. So hot he forgot to [...]

Once writers put something on the page, the possibilities for a different way to say the same thing converge on the brain, barraging its cells with parts of speech in various tenses. In other [...]

There is always comfort in the land and the water that carves through it. Last night we sat on the porch overlooking the mountains and grieved with Sherrill’s family, so tenderly beautiful in [...]

NEW RULES:1) No blogging required when I am on meditation retreat, when I am sick, when I am flying somewhere, or when I am spending the night somewhere unexpected and to track down a computer is [...]