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Yesterday I finished Owning it All, a collection of essays by William Kittredge. Now I imagine myself sitting in the dining hall having dinner with him at the first residency for my Master’s, [...]

Tammy, my sangha grandmother, gives it to me straight: “You’re human. You have hormones. Just be thankful your body is working the way it should be. Really, it’s doin’ it’s job. Just let it go.” [...]

I go to the Montessori school benefit auction with Evan and his parents. I cannot explain how this happens but I meet them just a mile down river from my house at the bed and breakfast. We drive [...]

I rise at 5am determined to get some time in on the grant project. It takes me three and a half hours of sludging through resistance to finally get my butt in the chair and start to write. By [...]

I go to the Food Stamps Office because during my phone interview they told me I qualify. The office is located up on a hill away from downtown near the other Social Services offices for our [...]

Britt calls on her cell on the way over to my place. Tonight is our much-anticipated writer’s date to work on outlining my book into chapters. “Have you passed through the square yet?” I ask, [...]

I go to the benefit concert in BigCity, NC for the boarding school I used to teach at. Darrell Scott and Tim O’Brien are playing, award winning bluegrass musicians who sell out the show in [...]

“She’s from Iss-ta-an-bull,” says Mr. Athletic, admiring his girlfriend. He is speaking Southern. “Ees-tan-bowl,” she corrects and shuffles her elfin feet adorned in Saucony runners. But the rest [...]

When you’ve been deeply in loveand then left that love behindthe imprint of its memorycan crash through your bodylike a tidal waveatanygivenmoment. Today it was during my banjo lesson when my [...]

I go to Joe’s to pick up more tea, which I have purchased with real money this time because I can’t keep up with the barter this week. Kaiya is there, the new apprentice for the growing season. [...]