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There is something graceful in the silence after the last pages of a book. The weight of the closed hardcover in your hands, the pages a little more worn than when you picked it up, the [...]

When the body is still, the rest of the world can look like an action-packed movie. A few days ago it was the doe I watched from the porch. Yesterday, I observed a woodchuck foraging through the [...]

Back on Fork Mountain, I am greeted by a lone doe about twelve feet from the porch, flapping her ears and munching on wild grasses. She stands firmly on the side of the mountain, hind legs braced [...]

It’s not as though deciding that you’d be better off making someone disappear from your life makes it any easier. It’s not as though the façade of moving on can ever be anything more than a [...]

Just got word from a fellow student… Pacific University’s low-res MFA program has been rated in the TOP FIVE in the nation by The Atlantic Monthly! The Secret. Is. Out.

There’s no denying it any longer. The memoirs I read are simply not the type of memoirs I want to write. When I struggled with this last semester, I looked to fiction for an answer. In the short [...]

It occurs to me that I have to draw on the power of the mind and not so heavily the power of the body and sense of place for my inspiration. Normally, if my body is stagnant, my mind is stagnant. [...]

The radiologist says it’s not broken, which by now I figured. The orthopedist, however, is not available until Thursday, an entire six days after the initial injury. Tomorrow I’m taking the [...]

Denial is only so potent a drug. By 2am I am hobbling up the wooden steps to the truck and driving myself down the mountain to the ER. The hardest part is trying to figure out what to do with my [...]

After a morning working with Zac and Sammy on the driveway, I make it to the boarding school reunion by lunchtime and right away I feel at home. There is Rose and Cate, Cosima and Karen. Then I [...]