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Even bloggers celebrate Thanksgiving!  There is so much to be thankful for this season, not the least of which is having a place to call home. Thanks for reading, liking, linking, following, [...]

I spent a lot of time last week thinking about what it means to really live some place. To commit to it. To invest in a landscape as you might invest in a life partner. For three years I [...]

When I was in grad school, I had the luxury of communicating with my advisors every month about my current craft concerns. At the time, I was focused on nonfiction; specifically, a series of [...]

My good ol’ AmeriCorps crewmembers! When I first moved to Western North Carolina 10 years ago, I came fresh off the trail. For ten months prior, I worked with a backcountry trail crew [...]

I have no clue who this is, but it’s how I feel sometimes. Thanks for letting me dweeb-out about process on The Writing Life Blog these past few weeks… I shifted gears this week in my [...]

For four days it was nothing but wind and wind and wind. Places just a few miles from here were hit with 20 inches of snow, much worse than the South Toe Valley’s measly few inches. But the [...]

Hear, hear good readers! There’s nothing like giving a public reading to make me feel certain I’ve moved back home. Juniper Bends Reading Series in Asheville is hosting an event for 5 [...]

Last week, I blogged about imitation as inspiration. On the heels of that writing exercise–which I employed all week long–I can say I’m also convinced that imitation is a [...]

I’ve been copying. That’s right. Borrowing another writer’s structure and trying to stuff it with my own words.  Actually, I’ve been doing it all morning [...]

I pride myself on being a pretty low maintenance, portable writer. After all, I specialized in moving around for three years with this writing life, and by and large my biggest “tool” [...]