Graduation was fabulous! While I’m waiting to gather photos from that, check out this video on You Tube of the Graduating Class of June 2008 doing a spoof version of “Red River [...]
Hi.My name is Katey.And I am tired and my body is a knot of sailor’s rope…but I am smiling.And tomorrow I graduate from the MFA program.And tonight this is my post.
I don’t know how to do any of this Kodak online or Flicker stuff, but I do know how to add images to a Google homepage and make links when I’m on a high speed connection. So here are [...]
Another late night and spirit-rich day. Rather than attempt a story-blog, I’ll post here one of my advisors signed in his novel to me today…his sweet and humorous way for thanking me (and fellow [...]
Perhaps the best part of the day was the evening reading at Elk Cover winery, with live music, an open bar, and three top notch faculty readings. Or perhaps it was the student open-mic reading, [...]
It’s not as though one can prepare for this, but there we are, Amy and I, sitting in the audience at the Taylor-Meade Performing Arts Center. Tonight, like every other night, is a formal reading [...]
I have never felt more appreciated and celebrated and at ease with myself as a writer as I have today. KL and I delivered our critical introductions and creative manuscript readings today to a [...]
There is the campus green, the way the towering evergreens sag with wisdom, their boughs broader than a house, their sap like the amber tears of ancient storytellers, and the many pairs of feet [...]
What it takes is this: KL behind the wheel, Pearl Jam on the radio, and the two of us driving down Sunset Highway toward Forest Grove for the start of our final residency. The windows are down, [...]
