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In the past four weeks, here’s a bit of what’s been on my radar: PERFORMANCES I’ve seen: The Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Company. Carol Jantsch, principal tuba player for the Philadelphia [...]

My reflections on week four are brief: I lived solo in the mountains for a long time and proved to myself that I can support myself as a writer when the equation is very simple. Part-time work, [...]

A few orders of business before tonight’s post. First, if you are a Pacific alum or writer enthusiast, you will likely enjoy this post by former Interlochen Writer-in-Residence and NC [...]

Ladies and Gentlemen: John Carr Walker and I are proud to announce the new literary magazine, TRACHODON. Our mission . . . Is to print the best of contemporary lit, art, and nonfiction about [...]

Things I am learning about life here: –It is possible to live in lower northwest Michigan and meet someone who introduces herself by saying, “I’m from Canada, south of here.” –People [...]

Week three flew by. I now understand why Thursdays are the most disliked day by the department, despite the fact that having no scheduled classes gives the illusion of more time to write. Last [...]

[Warning: Gross picture at the end.] Mr. B, a late-twenties-something petite man with skin taut as a drum over two angular cheekbones, leads the class. He is MMA certified and cross-trains in [...]

“I don’t recognize this two-track,” says Leon Hammerhead, my writing guru and personal snowshoe coach. “Which means I don’t know exactly where we are.” We’re not far from the Boardman River. I [...]

One of my former professors from grad school used to teach at Interlochen and lives in the area. He is probably one of the most intuitive writers I will ever know, one of the most genuine men [...]

[My apologies for infrequent blog posts. I travelled to Atlanta for a conference and then there was a campus-wide Internet connection failure.] Although this post is a bit delayed, I can think of [...]