Cass shows up at the hotel and I appear at the bar for what I know will be the necessary face-to-face meeting and moving on of last year’s confusion and heart break. Except, by the time I get [...]
“Get out, Schultzy,” Cam says. “Get outside and go on a walk or I’ll kick your butt. What better place to practice being balanced than here, where it’s the hardest?” And he’s right. He’s [...]
It’s the halfway point. Mile 13 of the marathon and still, I can be all smiles when I’m out and about but when I get back to my room I want to break glass. I want to claw at the dresser. To toss [...]
I’m supposed to write an aubade or a nocturne, or both, but damn if I can’t write anything except my residency evaluation, these days hitting like a triple play—like the time I worked at summer [...]
And today, so much inspiration. The following quotes are from just one of my workshop leaders and just one of the many events I attended today: “You honor two gods in this writing life. The god [...]
It’s late and who cares. I’ve got my arm around Beth and she’s hugging me back as we smile and talk to Peter, our oh-so-loveable poet faculty member with a heart of gold and the laugh to back it [...]
First, it is with your ears. The incessant thrumming of waves tugging and tossing themselves to and from the shore. Second, it is with your skin. The salt as it calcifies the creases in your [...]
The 1969 vintage Mercedes Benz which Jane and I so proudly drove around the city died in downtown Beaverton yesterday. Hence, no blog post. Hence, the rented Ford Fusion. Hence the delayed city [...]
Jane drives down from Seattle to pick me up at PDX and oh, happy day! Everywhere we go we get love. First stop, The Montage underneath the Morrison Bridge on Portland’s east side. The lighting is [...]
No class for almost two weeks because of the holidays, and now I’m 34,000 feet in the air heading northwest from Atlanta to Portland—a five hour flight and enough time for me to finally crack [...]
