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Website updates! Including a national cover story and an author invitation to a regional festival.

My friend Amy gave me a homework assignment this week: Call the guy at the meditation center who has a crush on me, instead of avoiding him like I have been. “No,” I told her. “Why not? He’s [...]

Today I turned 30 years old! And yesterday I had the best party ever! How do I know? My jaw hurt from smiling so much! I feel uplifted and appreciated. Thank you, friends and family!

Shane and I took a big step today, submitting our first proposal for publication to a literary journal. The title of our combined efforts is Lost Crossings: A Contemplative Look at Western North [...]

Over the holidays, Nate and I carpooled to the dojo since he lives near my parents’ house where I was visiting. For almost five weeks straight, Hanshi has had us doing jui jitsu during our [...]

Down and out for the c-o-u-n-t.

Current reading material spread about my house:Rolling Stone MagazineAir Guitar by David HickeyFollies by Ann BeattieTHE WEEKVanity Fair (which includes Joseph E. Stiglitz’s esteemed essay on the [...]

Visualization is powerful. The thought that in the next year (give or take) I will leave this mountain followed me all day. In many ways, my world felt bigger, as though giving myself the chance [...]

I’m starting to visualize a different place to live. In a city, where I can walk to what I need and be exposed to things that force me to think outside the box. In this visualization, I start to [...]

Today I wrote the draft intro to the footbridges book. Here goes: The idea came slowly at first, like snowmelt filtering down a mountain stream. I’d been told the swinging footbridges are [...]