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I go on a walk with GP and my parents up behind Silver Cove. We start on an overgrown trail that goes over a small ridge, then dips down into a creek bed. Here, the water flows in a narrow path [...]

The former manager of the coffeehouse, Kim, is now employed part-time as our baker, to accommodate her new life as a mother. She comes into the coffeehouse three days a week with a trunk full of [...]

[Sorry for the late post. My phone line went out last night.] Today my front right tire blew out. We’re not talking puncture wound here. No nails to be found. I mean, I heard it pop. Then felt [...]

The moon shed light tonight in wide, florescent slate streaks along the sides of the house. Rhododendrons cast deep shadows across the wood, enlarged and angled into tree sized beasts. The gravel [...]

This morning the light was as fine as silk, so that upon waking I leaned into the windowsill magnetically, stretching toward the soft yellow rays by instinct. And though two essays waited, not [...]

A pat on the back. We all deserve one. Give yourself one, then pass it on. It’s been a roller coaster writer month. I deserve a recap: Four weeks (MFA):1,230 pages read.Seventy pages of new [...]

Parties with Buddhists never fail to be interesting. If one assumption is that we attend parties to celebrate – to imbibe or to atleast temporarily exchange our own patterns of thought for [...]

It’s difficult to describe a day when it arcs from the pink light of pre-dawn reflecting across quilt clouds along the Black Mountains, to a post-gallery opening party in BigCity, NC with art [...]

There is a two-inch deep purple bruise on the inside of my left forearm caused by a fluke bleed from acupuncture treatment earlier this week. When I turn my hand palm-up to give customers their [...]

The demons like to feast at the party, too. By which I mean that my elation for the writing life, my assuredness, my dreaming self, comes quickly shadowed by the voices of doubt. It is not a [...]