Effectively, I took a week plus one long weekend off of MFA homework. Instead, I did magazine work, I reviewed submissions for two literary magazines, I sorted papers, I had a day in the city [...]
Phone lines back up. But I’m dead-dog tired and trying to find my rhythm again. It’s been a lovely week of magazine writing and hardly any homework done at all. Time and space are the best way to [...]
Phone lines down for two days, therefore no internet access at the house.Ice and snow on the car this morning (picture me, runny nose and cramps, chipping ice off the door handle with a fork so [...]
This is how it works: You walk in the door and everything else falls away. “I’m tired. I’m sick. I’m overloaded. My body hurts.” The good stuff too—“I’m getting steady magazine work. I’m almost [...]
There are several things: 1. The first draft of my thesis is done. 2. I still have my job and will have it for a long time. 3. There are now lots of website updates! Check the sidebar, new [...]
We’re working wunsu kata, my second kata and not something traditionally taught to white belt students. But class is small this evening, just three black belts, a blue, and myself. My knee still [...]
Snow piles outside and inside there are piles of papers across my desk. The first draft of the thesis is due a week from Monday and I’ve finally gotten far enough to warrant actually printing [...]
Today was perhaps one of the worst days of work at the coffeehouse in my three years there. That, plus the stress of the draft thesis deadline were enough to make me wither by mid-afternoon, [...]
