Today, our sunniest day yet at the beach and everyone has to pack up and head home. This if the first of three-part journey to get back home: Seaside to Portland today, Portland to [...]
Last night was our banquet for the graduates (always a smaller class in the off season, but they’ll come back in June for the full ceremony) and many endless hours of late night talk and [...]
Not much to say today…an excellent day, even though things are winding down. Here are some quotes: “Self-doubt keeps you attentive.” “To write once sentence is to announce the possibility of the [...]
Oh happy day! I wake up to sunshine for the first time since I arrived on 1/2 and, while I hadn’t thought to wish for such fine weather on my birthday, as soon as I looked out the window the day [...]
Cass shows up at the hotel and I appear at the bar for what I know will be the necessary face-to-face meeting and moving on of last year’s confusion and heart break. Except, by the time I get [...]
“Get out, Schultzy,” Cam says. “Get outside and go on a walk or I’ll kick your butt. What better place to practice being balanced than here, where it’s the hardest?” And he’s right. He’s [...]
It’s the halfway point. Mile 13 of the marathon and still, I can be all smiles when I’m out and about but when I get back to my room I want to break glass. I want to claw at the dresser. To toss [...]
I’m supposed to write an aubade or a nocturne, or both, but damn if I can’t write anything except my residency evaluation, these days hitting like a triple play—like the time I worked at summer [...]
And today, so much inspiration. The following quotes are from just one of my workshop leaders and just one of the many events I attended today: “You honor two gods in this writing life. The god [...]
