Where to begin? I seem to keep taking too long to post new blog entries. Sorry. This has got to be one of the slowest summers — as far as (paid) work for me — I’ve ever had but still I find myself busy, frazzled, distracted. So, first, Fishtrap. Got back from my 8-day writing [...]
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Fishtrap 2
August 6, 2010
Room To Write
February 21, 2010
<–got this photo at an antique store just outside Johnson Vermont last month. On the back it says “Uncle Fred’s brother Alvin. Hazel’s father.” Today had one of the longest (and most productive) days of writing since I got back from Vermont. Also, kind of nice to go with the hubby and write. We went [...]
VSC: The Last Day
January 28, 2010
Wow. I can’t believe it’s over. My last day at Vermont Studio Center. So much to say but my head is utterly pounding and the thoughts in my brain a-jumble — anxiety about travel tomorrow, the strange ritual of packing up after 5 weeks away, the goodbyes to dozens of wonderful people. What is there [...]
VSC 4: 2 Weeks
January 17, 2010
Well, it’s now been officially 2 weeks since I got here to VSC. I’ve definitely settled in (you know you’re settled in when you sleep in and miss breakfast). Yesterday several people went home–the two-weekers we call them. It was a gloomy day; they were all such cool folks: Sarah G, Sarah C, Scott, Pedro, [...]
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
December 10, 2009
Ted’s been away over a week and i’m going stir crazy! Thankfully he is coming home tonight. It was only a week, I know, but when it’s just me and the kitties it gets a little weird. I wonder what he’s going to do when i’m in Vermont for a month doing my writer’s residency? [...]
Usufruct
July 12, 2009
Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day July 12 usufruct \YOO-zuh-frukt\ noun Meaning *1 : the legal right of using and enjoying the fruits or profits of something belonging to another 2 : the right to use or enjoy something Example Sentence Dorothy’s will bequeathed one-third of her estate to her husband; the remaining two-thirds was [...]
Human beings just got to tell stories
April 12, 2009
Back from Utah. What a glorious trip! This is my third (fourth?) trip to St. George, Utah for work on my book but this time I really felt a much stronger sense of place–which I hope (no, I believe) I can convey in the book. Some days I just sat outside in the red rock [...]
Write as if you are dying.
March 31, 2009
From The Writer’s Almanac, March 29, 2009: Teaching Poetry to 3rd Graders by Gary Short At recess a boy ran to me with a pink rubber ball and asked if I would kick it to him. He handed me the ball, then turned and ran and ran and ran, not turning back until he was [...]
Blazing Laptops!
March 24, 2009
I’m participating in an all day Write-A-Thon this Saturday in San Diego. No, I did not say Write-A-Thong! Though if it helps me get more pledges I just might wear one! I’m going to be sitting at my laptop for 9 hours, writing. Well, actually about 8 hours and 30 minutes, because i’m also leading [...]
Ringing the Bells
February 15, 2009
That’s me, second from the right, in the blue vest and (of course) tennis shoes. Me and the other boys from my Sunday School class, circa 1979–thirty years ago, St. Alban’s Episcopal Church in El Cajon, California. My hair is so shiny blond, like a Breck Girl Ad. Here’s a memory: I was an acolyte [...]
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