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Image Source Recently, I blogged about quick tips for readers and writers looking to support their local indy booksellers. Expanding on that theme, today I’d like to share a few ideas about [...]

  Backpacking off trail in Alaska, circa 2010. Recently, one of my monthly mentees shared a NYT Magazine article with me, summarizing the tradition around the agony of writing. The article [...]

. Here’s a thought experiment: Before you leave, you’ll want to make sure to do laundry. You’re traveling on a book tour and you don’t have that many clean socks and [...]

This fall has been about conversations: in person, via snail mail, and through email. As writers and artists, conversations are the foundation of genuinely building an online presence and lasting [...]

I was fortunate enough to call Jack Driscoll a mentor during graduate school at Pacific University. We’ve kept in touch for the past 11 years and he even met River last April when I was [...]

A while back, one of my writing mentors wrote to me that a woman walked up to him in a bar one night—a total stranger—and kissed him on the lips, then walked away. Sometimes, stories are given to [...]

Even more than “Is it going to be a boy, or girl?”, the question of creativity and motherhood came up in conversations during my 9 months of pregnancy and throughout what is now [...]