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I’ve never created an audio file before, but the voice came to me so strongly when I sat down to write this evening, that I got a notion to record the post. Blogger doesn’t allow [...]

Dear Texas, Since it looks like we’ll be spending time together this fall, I thought I should introduce myself. You’ll know me first and foremost by my car, THE CLAW, which will cross [...]

I took some time this afternoon to finish Phase 1 of readying THE CLAW for the road. By now, I have the routine down and it starts at a local car wash where I make fine use of 75-cent power-vacs. [...]

I have a confession: There are books I haven’t read. No, not those books; not those ones in piles on the coffee table, the ones we’ll get to eventually, the ones we’ve always intended to read but [...]

About ten days. I’ve got about ten days before the long, hot drive to Texas (via Bloomington, via Fayetteville) and that means ten days to make use of speedy Internet, an on campus post office, [...]

I rarely blog on weekends, but this is too sweet not to acknowledge. At the close of the week–after every single person workshopped and most of the class read at our open-mic–we all [...]

It dawned on me today during tutorials: This is a big deal! There are people in my class who have traveled from Texas, Colorado, Connecticut, Missouri, Indiana, and locally from Michigan to [...]

During our aspirations on the first day of class, one participant said it best when she said she aspired to go “deeper than memory.” I told my students I hoped they’d all break [...]

I never do this. Ever. Except this time, somehow…I knew. I knew that when the memoir class booked full to 16 with a waiting list, that in order to teach at my very best, I’d need to [...]

Making Meaning of Our Memories kicked off this afternoon and I felt giddy and nervous walking into the classroom to meet the roomful of expectant adults. After a go-round, I learned I would be [...]