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I’m doing a meditation retreat all weekend and won’t post again until Monday.

{continued from yesterday…} It should have been no surprise that everyone at the grocery store seemed to know Al. We weren’t ten steps to the produce section before he had his arms around [...]

This post is a continuation of my ongoing footbridges project, which began this fall in collaboration with photographer Shane Darwent. So far we have an article, 2 lectures, and an exhibit [...]

I lost 10 pounds! And my workouts from the first training regimen are getting easier. So today I made a new regimen: ROUND TWO EVERYDAY45 mins physical therapy THREE TIMES A WEEKKarate/Jui Jitsu [...]

Good news! I have updloaded the .pdf version of my latest art essay, “Informed Wildness.” Click here to get to my website, where the article link is posted on the sidebar.

Anybody else dizzy from the roller coaster? What a week! Today – wise words from two friends: First, from one of my former Montessori teachers:“You know, as a Montessori teacher one of my hardest [...]

Here’s a link to my latest articlefor Asheville’s Mountain Xpress, a preview of this year’s bi-annual Studio Tour. And better yet, an essay titled “Informed Wildness” that I wrote for Ceramic Art [...]

A beautiful, brave young woman died yesterday of a rare cancer. Her name was Amy Young and she was an intern at Pacific University. I saw her at the MFA residencies the last 5 June’s and [...]

We hold what hope we can in the intimacies of life, the little breadcrumbs—be that through a small audience, a jewel of a sentence, or one evening well spent with a book. Rarely do we understand [...]

Because Ben Fountain says, “By now I’d learned that to return to a remembered place is to risk ruining the thing archived in your mind.” Because he says, “So the method, basically, is I research [...]