Early Signs

Three days of 40-degree weather and clear skies and the campus is a cacophony of melting snow. Rivulets of snow-drops fall in tiny rows from the roofline of my every building, their pitter-patter [...]

Sensory Deprivation

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 [...]

Announcing TRACHODON

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 [...]

Intro to MMA

[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 [...]

Leon Time

“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 [...]

Meet Leon Hammerhead

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 [...]

The Symphony of Snow

Trusting the lake is easy now that I’ve done it with a group of people. A narrow path down to the lakeshore, then one, joyful leap onto the ice. It’s sunny this afternoon in lower northwest [...]

Ice Fishing!

“The hottest thing you’ll see happen out on the ice is one of these flags tipping up,” says the ice fisherman, our guest teacher in Mr. Copeland’s ecology class. He’s holding a “tip up,” a [...]

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