Bwahahaha!
Both my sons are out of the house, mostly, so now the “art” of practice isn’t about finding time to write between the particulars of parenting. Now the art of practice is making sense of the unfolding...
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I’ve landed the perfect job: helping people ship their documents and packages at a small independent store. It offers a place for people to drop off their returns to Amazon, faxing, copying,...
View ArticleNovember 2022
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, and evenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The...
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December 2022: Waves
Anyone older than a New York minute knows that when bad stuff happens, it seems to happen in waves. There’s a year or three where everything goes ass-over-teakettle: skin cancer, fractured ankle, job...
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January 2023: in praise of editors
From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to the frog. Pay attention to the west wind. Pay attention to the boy on the raft, the lady...
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February 2023: the impossible
My hypervigilant brain has been wrassling with revision of my speculative-fiction manuscript. In an effort to get it to relax its anxious judge-y grip, today I dipped my writer’s craft toes into...
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March 2023: Others’ Words
I’m down on the mat wrestling with my larger piece of fiction which is several smaller pieces of related fictions, and have been reading widely for organizational inspiration. Here are tidbits that...
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April 2023: Counting syllables
Part of my current writing project involves a future with flooding on the eastern seaboard of the United States. I’m no climate scientist, though of course I have observed, as we all have, that...
View ArticleMay 2023: Re-effing-vision
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June-July 2023: Summer reading and a sort-of love letter to Becky Chambers...
The infrastructural delineation between human space and everything-else space was stark. … the villages … were as neatly corralled as the City …. This had been the way of things since the Transition,...
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