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It is difficult to know where to begin when I am still clearly in transition. Reeling from only three hours of sleep the last night of residency, even the best espresso I’ve had since Paris [...]

The end of the residency is anti-climactic. Everyone departs at different intervals, most of us hung-over, to catch flights home or drive long hours into the day back to their families, pets, [...]

There can be no post tonight. Suffice it to say I rode in a Jeep Grand Cherokee with PF, JD, and JM to the final dance party for the conclusion of our residency, later kissing JM on the cheek [...]

Already it is difficult to explain. Has it been ten days? Two months? Did I make mistakes? Miss opportunities? Sleep through anything? The graduation ceremony for the Class of 2006 commences [...]

JM’s craft talk blows me out of the water and I start to cry right there in the lecture hall. At the end I ask him, “Do you think we’re all junkies for that moment of reckoning?” and he smiles, [...]

Sometime between evening of Day Five and the afternoon of Day Six (which was Friday) the intensity rises, tightening like tire rubber expanding under pressure. We live in apartment-style dorms [...]

Bringing meaning to a moment, an exercise in class: Spring Break 2000 One hiker, already, dead. We hike for two more days, tasting the salt of our mortality like slugs; hesitant. Into the valley [...]

From a memory acquisition exercise in class: Since the open-backed stairs are carpeted on all sides, unmistakable marmalade magenta wrapping around dense slabs of walnut wood, there is enough [...]

I have stepped off the edge of the planet. Suddenly everything I have ever done grows small, but not diminutive. Where once my writing was a star I gazed upon with occasional bursts of optimistic [...]

At almost every instant things happen that I cannot believe. And here, now, in a dorm room ninety minutes inland of the Pacific Ocean, I sit half-buzzed on alcohol, my other half blissed out on [...]