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  I’m not sure what felt more poignant: the thirty-two consecutive minutes during which I lay on my back and stared at the ceiling while listening to the printer spew out my fiction [...]

  Ghost update: There’s been another sighting in the Thomas Wolfe room! More soon! In the meantime… Author James Boyd believed that the role of the artist in society included “the [...]

Newsy News Flash: Three of my war short-shorts were accepted for publication by Future Cycle Flash, a new online flash fiction magazine! They selected my stories for the debut of their magazine [...]

  I’ve tried lights on, doors locked and lights on, doors unlocked. Then lights off, doors, locked and the next night—lights off, doors unlocked. I’ve tried night songs and day songs; even a [...]

I’ve often been asked if I ever feel self-indulgent with “all this time to just write.” It’s an innocent enough question, but my response is pretty clear: If a lawyer wakes up in the [...]

This afternoon, the halls of Boyd House mansion were filled with live piano music written by Spanish composers. I checked my Weymouth program for October and decided the pianist at work in The [...]

[Partial view of the Paul Green Room, where I’m staying for 4 weeks] Even before anyone mentioned the ghosts, it occurred to me that I might have seen one at Weymouth. Mind you, I’ve never seen a [...]

[A sampling of flowers from the garden off one of several patios surrounding the Boyd House] Not all those who wander are lost. It’s a favorite bumper sticker around the Pacific Northwest, [...]

[I have safely arrived, a nearly impossible task if it weren’t for THE CLAW and it’s determined grasping for the next great thing.] Never mind starting with a 16-hour flight delay, the [...]