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Parker shows up late and needs a place to stay. Sure. Fine. Here is OK. I tell him yes even though I’m concerned I won’t be able to sleep as well. Then again, I think, I’m so [...]

Mom and Dad have me over for soy ice cream and I am dead dog tired, almost falling over as I walk in the door at 9:30pm – the time I finally got home tonight. I cannot write when there are loose [...]

Hello world!I won 3rd place in the Oregon Quarterly contest for my essay titled “Meditation on Activism.”Molly Gloss picked the winning essay and has invited the writers to a workshop!I’m also [...]

I bought the car. It is a 1989 Volvo 740 station wagon with 156,000 miles on it and a fading paint job but perfect body. It has heated seats and a leather interior, a sunroof, a working radio and [...]

The word “infected” has to go. More like “infused.” And all the clichés have to go: yesterday’s news, water off a duck’s back, and the beacon reference. After the step out to the universal, the [...]

Check out the new website updates! Recent publications downloadable from the sidebar and a few new obsessions… Tonight’s poem, which I read at Eve’s Night Out. A work in progress, but still [...]

My parents and I leave early to drive to Tinytown and see the place I will be moving into. I ask dad to drive so that I can study the way the land moves and where the river crossings are. It’s [...]

I have been avoiding the blog because I am utterly overwhelmed, but tonight a friend asked me: “Are you laying off the blog for a while?” I had to take pause. Really, I had no intentions of doing [...]

Spring never ceases to amaze me. But it’s not the first blooming crocus. Not the daffodil hanging heavy after a cold snap. Not even the return of the blue bird, two of which chirped and chased up [...]

(Imagery borrowed heavily from Dana Levin’s In the Surgical Theater) I read your surgical theateryour bloody edge beneath the scalpelyour angels hovering with wing beats like the heartyour dying [...]