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I found my rhythm again this week, after two weeks of rather frustrating levels of productivity. I came here to answer the question: Can I teach part time and still write, read, and submit at the [...]

I remember you, Spring. Your clever blades of grass and limey shades of leaves. How once, after a long winter, I fell to my knees in wet snow, book bag flung to the tree trunks, and bent to kiss [...]

NEWS FLASH: Please briefly check today’s website updates, for information about how to order your FREE COPY of NC Conversations, the magazine published this month featuring [...]

First, a few orders of business: “In the Quiet,” a short-short that I wrote, was published this month in Sugar Mule, a journal of eccentric Buddhist work. Picture a nonfiction writer new to [...]

I have been emotional all week, a fact that is evident in these pages only by my unpredictable posting times. If I’m grumpy and don’t know why, what on earth do I have to say about it? It’s the [...]

My reflections on week five are likewise brief. Time is flying by here. Already I can feel the season passing. So many of my routines and so much of my regular psychology has been disrupted—for [...]

We’re at the Hofbrau, a local pub just one mile down the road where smoking indoors is still legal and small children roam the bar as if in their own backyards. Never mind that I look overdressed [...]

I will now throw a rare, but brief, public fit on my blog: IT. IS. NOT. WORKING! Where is my time going? What happened to the short-short and the short story I started ten days ago?

In the past four weeks, here’s a bit of what’s been on my radar: PERFORMANCES I’ve seen: The Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Company. Carol Jantsch, principal tuba player for the Philadelphia [...]

My reflections on week four are brief: I lived solo in the mountains for a long time and proved to myself that I can support myself as a writer when the equation is very simple. Part-time work, [...]