I have an essay published this week on Catapult about my grief for the ecological future of my children, and how I comprehend my fear of the slow-moving disaster via the acute trauma of a…
Posts tagged dreams
from the fertile ground
The doors keep opening, And though my head is still heavy for the pillow, I accept it as a slamming omen, To at least write this sentence, About opening, slamming, sentence-rising, omens. It came to…
incubation
How to hatch an inspiration. Sit on it, but notice it flaring up every time you go for a walk in the woods. Note that you hike faster and arrive sooner. Try to write…
at the end of the day
WRITING HAS MORE TO DO WITH MATH than luck, talent or training. It’s simple statistics: discipline and exercise make a writer. This MAY be more naïve hope than natural law, for I started writing with…
waking up; looking out
(Photo courtesy of friend, co-worker and fellow travel blogger, Tim Hare.) Hi friends. Obviously I have been busy. Today I walked in the door from two weeks spent in the California Sierras conducting an orientation…