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I explore the city on foot today, parking the borrowed Honda in my favorite Smart Park on 10th and Taylor (Only $1.25 per hour!) and heading out from there. I verify the death of yet another [...]

We’re not all shits and giggles but we’re not all business either. At first it’s a tight hug, then the jokes about coffee and the need for early morning caffeine. Then there are the who’s and [...]

Beth told me she read an article which hypothesized that it takes several days for the soul to catch up with the body after flying across the country. So when I slept through the morning [...]

When she greets me in the kitchen, Beth’s smile is welcoming, like morning light. Today is her husband’s birthday and there are things to do and groceries buy and a double layer [...]

The easiest part of the day is waking up. My body is warm underneath four blankets and the surprise of Beth’s sweet, black cat that curled on top of me sometime in the pre-dawn. A rooster crows [...]

It is half a mile hike down to the car, then forty mintutes to my parents’s house, then two and a half hours to the airport, then one hour to Cincinnati with a two and a half hour layover, [...]

Massive computer problems the night before I leave. Not good. It might be a few days, folks. Next post, from the west coast – with a picture included, if I can get everything up and running [...]

I resolve to stop the wanting, the pining, the reel of film in my mind’s eye. In other words, I decide to move on. I wake up. Hot tea. Stretch. Then straight to the desk where I write 2,500 words [...]

Some readers have expressed interest in the villanelle form. It’s something I learned about at the last residency and I liked it because it has a relatively simple formula and seems to hold up [...]

I receive eight of them in the mail, stamped, signed and sealed by the University of Oregon – the invitations to my very first public reading. They’re cut lengthwise ten inches on slate blue [...]