Synchronicity
I love it when seemingly random elements in my life dovetail into a perfect moment of synchronicity. One of those happened this week. Part A: I have a beginner’s fascination with tarot. I really know...
View ArticleStepping Up to the Mic
When I first moved to Cloverdale, I had the good fortune to almost immediately hook up with a local writing group that was just starting – The Night Writers. We met monthly to share our work and offer...
View ArticleRiver Stones & Suicide
I was finishing up a draft of a new poem the other day, just as Sabrina popped her head into my studio to say she was heading off to work. So I said, “Do you have a couple of minutes? Can I read a poem...
View ArticleCrosswords Don’t Count
I have been in a horrific reading slump. For weeks and weeks now, I have been unable to pick up a book, with the exception of two slim volumes of poetry, which I have somehow managed to finish. Other...
View ArticleMy Writing Process – Blog Tour
Over the course of the development of my book, Body on the Wall, I became good friends with Don Mitchell, one of the partners of Saddle Road Press. He took the photograph used on the cover of my book,...
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Book Launch! Body on the Wall
It’s official! Body on the Wall, my first collection of poetry, has been released to the world! Here’s what the day (and the days leading up to it) looked like: It all started when Aaron Rosewater of...
View ArticleFollow the Bread Crumb Trails
Back in early May, Marlene Cullen, host of The Write Spot blog, invited me to appear as a guest blogger, and then a couple of days later, she promised a review of my new book of poetry, Body on the...
View ArticleDancing the Line Between Fact and Fiction
I have been poring through volumes of memoir lately, by a wide variety of different writers. They have run the gamut of themes: illness, physical or mental (Lucy Grealy’s Autobiography of a Face, Sarah...
View ArticleHow Poetry Ambushed Me
I always knew I’d be a writer. But the image I had of myself was of a penner of stories. I began my first novel when I was in fourth grade. It was set in Connecticut. I lived in Montana, and at the...
View ArticleNext Boycott, Blame the Irish
Sometimes being a word nerd is just too much fun. I’m reading The Years by Virginia Woolf right now. It’s the story of the Pargiter family, from 1880 to the 1930s.Most of the novel is about this...
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