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I’m back at it, folks, only this time with my fellow Interlochen Summer Arts Faculty. A little Paul Desmond in the background, a few “discard” books, some pens and glue and [...]

Friday, July 22nd Public Reading Katey Schultz (reading from Flashes of War) and Jess Foster (playwright) 7:00 pm @ The Writing House on the Interlochen Campus The evening will begin with short [...]

I’m revising a short story. Which means I’m eating. A lot. Cutting scenes and adding scenes and scratching out characters whole cloth requires Jelly Bellies or hot cocoa (with rice milk) or [...]

Round Three of my self-imposed Boot Camp is slightly less ambitious than Round One and Round Two, but I hosted 2 friends for 3 days and also managed to contract a snot-infused, [...]

I’ve been putting this post off for a long time, though the hatch marks sizzled into my brain over the past eight months with a permanence that still smarts. Nineteen months into my two-year [...]

It’s easier just to listen at home, you might think about guitarist Leo Kottke. Or about any single-artist/single-instrument show. Why bother? A self-described depressive, Kottke himself might [...]

It’s just another day at Interlochen when there’s a Tom Hanks sighting on campus and the lead singer of Metallica’s daughter is one of your students. I have to admit, even as a teacher striving [...]

I have to say I felt a little more than ambivalent about seeing Lucinda Williams in concert this summer after I purchased her latest album, Blessed on iTunes. Where was the old jug band Lucinda? [...]

It’s high time I attend to the task at hand which, for me, is always the ongoing relationship between landscape and story. To this end, readers of The Writing Life well know I love quoting [...]

Last week’s found poetry in altered books was such a success, that I decided to continue the art/writing hybrids this week in my own classroom, adapting an exercise I learned from visual [...]