Archives

There really are other things to think about. Like the kind of green that settles across these hills in June. It’s no longer a spring-lime green. The view from my house does not include the [...]

You think for a moment that kissing is like caffeine. It is addictive. It heightens the senses. It causes circular thinking under the guise of a rational optimism. Like trying to make the perfect [...]

You decide that whether or not he is going to the gallery opening, you will look effing hot anyway. Still, if he’s there, it can’t hurt to look this good. You wear your rip-off version of a J. [...]

A short-short that I wrote a while ago has come back to haunt me in the best possible way. Like an “itch that won’t scratch,” it continues to unfold and expand on the page. It’s hitting me in [...]

I think I nailed the interview. But I’m still dead-dog tired and must go to bed ASAP (and stop waking up involuntarily at 6:18 am, preferably). It’s summer. Can anyone else feel the [...]

Tomorrow I have 15 minutes in front of a panel of 10 administrators from Western North Carolina arts councils to prove that I can walk into any public school in this region and teach virtually [...]

[I can’t really write about the date. But it went well…] Dead-dog tired tonight and a 12-hour day tomorrow, then a residency interview to prepare for on Wednesday that I just found out about. The [...]

IOne must realize that the use of 2nd person is a tool for distancing. Furthermore, via the act of writing, the writer is often released from the peak emotions expressed in the essay. Therefore, [...]

Your friend writes to remind not to sweat the small stuff. She says: “You have been really happy of late, being your single self, writing, hiking, singing, etc.—in that place of not needing a [...]

Hanshi said it. He used the word “purple” in conversation with me tonight. Purple is the belt after green, my current rank. I’d had it in mind that I would be honored to test for it sometime [...]