I’ve been emailing back and forth a bit with Pacific University’s beloved JfD, fiction writer and teacher extraordinaire. He write me yesterday that a woman walked up to him in a bar last night—a [...]
[There are TWO POSTS for my second day at the conference. Miss the first one? Scroll down.] Hello Nick Hornby. Hello Dorthy fucking Allison. Hello Marilyn Robinson, Kim Adonizio, and Nick Flynn. [...]
There’s sunlight frosted in smog, a horn honking approximately once every minute, and from this eagle’s perch overlooking Grant Park and Lake Michigan, it feels as though I should be looking for [...]
I am directed through the revolving door. I am sent to the Bell Captain. I am assisted with my registration. I am pushed to the S line, given my token book bag. My REI Valhalla frame pack is [...]
Travel day! Made it here, thumbs up. Took the orange line from Midway to Roosevelt, walked to my friend Amy’s art studio, had some wine, had some sake, ate sushi. Took the Pink line to her [...]
I’m two days ahead of schedule for a footbridges fundraising update, but I leave for Chicago tomorrow, so here goes: I am happy to report that Lost Crossings has now raised $735, or 1/3 of its [...]
It’s the end of our first fundraising week for Lost Crossings and we have raised $285. I have four emails in our footbridges@gmail.com inbox promising donations from upper ranking staff members [...]
On December 1st, 2007 I started training in Okinawan Shuri-Ryu Karate do with Hanshi. On April 17th, 2008 I earned my blue belt (rok kyu), skipping the rank of shich kyu (sp?) at my instructor’s [...]
This just in: “Dear Ms. Schultz: I am writing to thank you once again for applying for the position in Creative Writing with the Department of English at The Ohio State University. Our department [...]