Who is Seeing
The poem is not about what you saw, but about who is seeing it.
Always moving
I’m finishing reading The Art of the Wasted Day, a book of essays about the lost practice of leisure time by Patricia Hampl. I’d been waiting until I completed a bunch of tasks to properly earn reading it (whatever that means), and packed it with me on a trip to Telluride for the (incredible, heart and mind…
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Writing a Scene of Solitude
I was reading an essay about teaching creative non-fiction in Creative Non-Fiction Magazine a couple of months ago (I know, I know, we gaze so studiously at our own navels, writers), and came across a reference to Jo Ann Beard’s “The Fourth State of Matter.” The reference was matter of fact, sort of assuming that if…
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The World is Short One Brilliant Force: Terri S. Shrum
Last Wednesday I woke to an email informing me that my beautiful, talented friend Terri S. Shrum passed away after a battle with cancer. She’d been diagnosed just weeks after she’d decided to pick up and move to Key West from New Orleans to devote herself to the craft of writing. I’d been reading the…
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