What do you write about?
I write about all the crap floating around inside my brain, the ghosts of school bullies and nuns in black habits, wielding rulers and sharp tongues. I write about my [...]
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Feb, 2015
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Feb, 2015
Let’s Go!
I’ve been filling up notebooks writing like crazy for over forty years. A lot of it was venting and whining—or to be kinder to myself, I’ll call it “therapeutic.” I [...]
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Jan, 2015
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Dear Family, Friends, and Fellow Writers, I spent 2014 working like crazy to revise and edit my first four novels. 2015 will be my year to promote and publish my [...]
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Jul, 2013
Delta Breeze
After a week where the temperature topped 105 degrees each day with little cooling at night, we are all so grateful to welcome back the Delta Breeze, the delightful wind [...]
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Jun, 2013
Happy Birthday USA!
I pledge allegiance to this sand and gravel road that runs between the river and my house, clumps of California poppies rangy stalks of fragrant fennel and burgeoning fig trees [...]
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Jun, 2013
Tending My Muse
It’s been a year now since I’ve retired from teaching, and I’m sure it will surprise no one when I say retirement is GREAT! Every now and then a friend [...]
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Jun, 2013
Writing the Amherst Way
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED MAY 17, 2013 A few weeks ago I had the privilege of writing in a workshop with Pat Schneider, the author of Writing Alone and with Others, and [...]
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Jun, 2013
My Writing Practice
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED APRIL 12, 2013 I realized early on that if I was going to be a poet, a notoriously underpaid and underappreciated profession, then I would need a second [...]
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Jun, 2013
Welcome to April! It’s National Poetry Month!
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED APRIL 5, 2013 Welcome to April! It’s National Poetry Month! I started writing poetry nearly forty years ago, when I was in college. I started getting published when [...]