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Anybody else dizzy from the roller coaster? What a week! Today – wise words from two friends: First, from one of my former Montessori teachers:“You know, as a Montessori teacher one of my hardest [...]

Here’s a link to my latest articlefor Asheville’s Mountain Xpress, a preview of this year’s bi-annual Studio Tour. And better yet, an essay titled “Informed Wildness” that I wrote for Ceramic Art [...]

A beautiful, brave young woman died yesterday of a rare cancer. Her name was Amy Young and she was an intern at Pacific University. I saw her at the MFA residencies the last 5 June’s and [...]

We hold what hope we can in the intimacies of life, the little breadcrumbs—be that through a small audience, a jewel of a sentence, or one evening well spent with a book. Rarely do we understand [...]

Because Ben Fountain says, “By now I’d learned that to return to a remembered place is to risk ruining the thing archived in your mind.” Because he says, “So the method, basically, is I research [...]

Taking a break for a few days…

After yesterday’s post, two friends emerged like old growth trees, always there through forces of any kind: Cam writes:“As much as I’ve always wanted a writing community, besides you, [...]

Here is what is happening:Inch by inch, I’m fighting for momentum. The history:When I graduated in June, I came back on fire and didn’t let up with my creative writing until fall. I wrote more [...]

[This is part of the ongoing saga of Al Onteroa and the swinging footbridges project. To read the most recent post about Al, scroll down to 11/9 and you’ll see it. This post picks up where that [...]

Today’s lesson: Every writer needs a SNOW DAY, a friend to share it with, and a truck to haul her bruised booty home when it’s all said and done. The link is to a temporary page I put up (no [...]