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(see post from earlier tonight, below…yes, two in one night) Under the porch light, beneath the stars, playing music with my friends, the guitar strap snaps and whips like a snake from [...]

My alarm goes off and life costs $800. At least, that what it feels like fourteen hours, one vehicle breakdown, four teeth x-rays, and a diagnosis of two cavities later. Oh, plus the towing fees. [...]

The valley was thick and soggy with moisture all day, as if honey-water swelled from clouds in a continuous, pulsing flow. In this temperate rainforest, it is possible to feel like you’re [...]

It goes like this, see: I work all day and then wish that in the morning I was going to class and could talk about my work with someone. Or I get stuck on a sentence and when I walk outside, as [...]

I wake up in the middle of the night completely calm, yet alert, and grab the pen and paper next to my bed. I can feel the ease of closing the chapter with MGL, whose letter I buried in my mind [...]

I work on my first twenty pages of creative work for my MFA advisor all day. When I need a break, I ride fourteen miles on the stationary recumbent bicycle at my parents’ house, because I can [...]

Joe is chest-deep in a deep irrigation ditch he and the apprentices have been hacking at all summer. His curly, white hair bobs in and out of the hole like a forest gnome peeking around the [...]

Perhaps I have been remiss in describing the coffeehouse. It resides on the bottom floor of an old Appalachian building on the top of a ridge in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. We’re [...]

I face off with the mountains for my Fourth of July and decide once and for all that this must be a journey of Independence. I will forgive myself for my wantings, laugh at them when I can [...]

The day unfolds like tissue paper around a wedding gift, somehow perfect despite the crinkles. I call Kim, my meditation instructor, and explain the crisis of my weekend. She laughs gently at my [...]