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Back on Fork Mountain, I am greeted by a lone doe about twelve feet from the porch, flapping her ears and munching on wild grasses. She stands firmly on the side of the mountain, hind legs braced [...]

It’s not as though deciding that you’d be better off making someone disappear from your life makes it any easier. It’s not as though the façade of moving on can ever be anything more than a [...]

Just got word from a fellow student… Pacific University’s low-res MFA program has been rated in the TOP FIVE in the nation by The Atlantic Monthly! The Secret. Is. Out.

There’s no denying it any longer. The memoirs I read are simply not the type of memoirs I want to write. When I struggled with this last semester, I looked to fiction for an answer. In the short [...]

It occurs to me that I have to draw on the power of the mind and not so heavily the power of the body and sense of place for my inspiration. Normally, if my body is stagnant, my mind is stagnant. [...]

The radiologist says it’s not broken, which by now I figured. The orthopedist, however, is not available until Thursday, an entire six days after the initial injury. Tomorrow I’m taking the [...]

Denial is only so potent a drug. By 2am I am hobbling up the wooden steps to the truck and driving myself down the mountain to the ER. The hardest part is trying to figure out what to do with my [...]

After a morning working with Zac and Sammy on the driveway, I make it to the boarding school reunion by lunchtime and right away I feel at home. There is Rose and Cate, Cosima and Karen. Then I [...]

It’s like one million tides pulling in as many directions. Former core students at the craft school are up for a reunion and want to party. Friends from daily life on campus who I haven’t seen [...]

The pavement ends and where the gravel picks up, a deer bounds across the road. I’m in dad’s truck, hauling luggage and groceries in the hot afternoon sun. The breeze is forgiving and the [...]