Cultivating compassion, creativity, curiosity & the courage to begin again.
A while back, inspired by my friend Annie’s DIY MFA, I set some similar intentions and began to fashion my own ‘do-it-myself’ writing program. I came across Gabriela Pereira's DIY MFA and (eventually) became (reluctantly, cynically) open to creating an Essential Reading List that represents the area of writing I want to focus on. In my case, my… Continue reading My DIY MFA: 2022 Reading List
Happy New Year, friend. Once again, I am sitting at my little writing desk on New Year's Day, bristling with the fear that 2022 will be yet another year when I fail to do what I say I'll do. Sitting at my little desk, thinking about all my old promises.... i am running into a… Continue reading My DIY MFA: Running Into the New Year
Nutritional yeast has a creamy texture and, when toasted, becomes wonderfully nutty and savory, deepening the delicious umami profile of this wonderful wintery-time dish.
A miscellaneous news and reading roundup (or: an enthusiastic summary of the most interesting, weird and worthwhile ways I procrastinated on the worldwide web this week). TRUTH BE TOLD, I drifted into another extended period of depression, and haven't been reading or listening to anything meaningful in quite a long time. Instead, I've been doom… Continue reading Ragtag & Sundry Sunday
I have long resolved the internal debate about whether I should or shouldn’t, would or wouldn’t do an MFA. Recently, I’ve been exploring an M.A. in Humane Education but, for the time being, that’s something I’m simply wishing into the world as I don’t have the time or finances to apply at this point in time. While… Continue reading My DIY MFA
A few years ago I started writing my regular 'Ragtag & Sundry' posts on a Sunday afternoon--an enthusiastic summary, essentially, of the most interesting, weird and worthwhile ways I procrastinated on the world wide web that week. As I've mentioned a couple of times this month, I'm procrastinating on writing a particular blog post that… Continue reading Ragtag & Sundry
I love Orion Magazine, and one of my favorite features is The Place Where You Live project, which provides readers with space to record their ideas about "place." Anyone can submit an entry, which I love. You don't need to identify as a "real" writer, and--whoever you are--I highly encourage you to give it a go if… Continue reading The Place Where You Live
More than two years have passed since I wrote my last post. I have always been an inconsistent and ambivalent blogger, in no small part because "blogger" is an inelegant, philistine, and silly-sounding word, and I will come up with the most trivial and haughty of excuses to not write. Other excuses are less snobbish… Continue reading Begin again
On Sunday afternoon, I joined a hundred or so women in Alberta Abbey in Northeast Portland. What began as an invitation to a small gathering in a friend's living-room had expanded, within a week, into this bigger, sprawling, holy-seeming space with a stage and a ballroom, a balcony and curtained side-rooms, where we broke out… Continue reading Because Going Home Is Not An Option
I have a new story in The Stinging Fly. It's about apples and woodturners, sort of. I haven't done too much woodworking lately, not since last Spring when I finished my blanket chest. Our place is so small, there's only so much room for another box, bowl, or coffee table. But some things from the past… Continue reading Enough For Keeping