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“Today, I almost smelled the earth being warmed by the sun,” the filmmaker said. “There will be another mass dumping of snow. You can count on it,” Leon Hammerhead said. “It’s supposed to rain, [...]

Watch them fall. Never mind their mucklucks-Merrell’s-Ecco’s-Uggs. They fall when they expect to fall and they fall when they least expect to fall. The only time they are not falling is when one [...]

I found my rhythm again this week, after two weeks of rather frustrating levels of productivity. I came here to answer the question: Can I teach part time and still write, read, and submit at the [...]

I remember you, Spring. Your clever blades of grass and limey shades of leaves. How once, after a long winter, I fell to my knees in wet snow, book bag flung to the tree trunks, and bent to kiss [...]

NEWS FLASH: Please briefly check today’s website updates, for information about how to order your FREE COPY of NC Conversations, the magazine published this month featuring [...]

First, a few orders of business: “In the Quiet,” a short-short that I wrote, was published this month in Sugar Mule, a journal of eccentric Buddhist work. Picture a nonfiction writer new to [...]

I have been emotional all week, a fact that is evident in these pages only by my unpredictable posting times. If I’m grumpy and don’t know why, what on earth do I have to say about it? It’s the [...]

My reflections on week five are likewise brief. Time is flying by here. Already I can feel the season passing. So many of my routines and so much of my regular psychology has been disrupted—for [...]

We’re at the Hofbrau, a local pub just one mile down the road where smoking indoors is still legal and small children roam the bar as if in their own backyards. Never mind that I look overdressed [...]

I will now throw a rare, but brief, public fit on my blog: IT. IS. NOT. WORKING! Where is my time going? What happened to the short-short and the short story I started ten days ago?