May 4, 2025 | Writing Life
It has been a while since I’ve written about my writing activities, so I’ll back up a little to include the past couple of months. At the end of March, I went to Denton’s for a week (March 20-27) to get some writing done. I came away with four poems, a couple of other...
Mar 15, 2025 | Writing Life
I’d never heard this story before. The gist of it is that a man asks the difference between heaven and hell. He is shown a door where people are starving, despite a huge pot of delicious-smelling stew being at their disposal, because all they have to feed themselves...
Feb 16, 2025 | Writing Life
My big writing adventure in January was Tennessee Mountain Writers’ January Jumpstart on January 18-19, in Oak Ridge, TN. We had two workshop speakers, Lisa Coffey for Poetry and Robert Gipe for Fiction. I was in Robert Gipe’s workshop. As always, Robert was...
Feb 14, 2025 | Memoir, Writing Life
Richard Hugo wrote, “Writing is a way of saying that you and the world have a chance.” This gives me hope in a seemingly less hopeful world. The world as I’ve known it my whole life doesn’t seem to have much of a chance most days, but I’ve not been writing so much...
Jan 14, 2025 | Writing Life
I’ve been reading minds – great minds – and their lush words lately. Part of taking the chapbook class I’m taking with Connie Green is that I’m supposed to read three poems each day. I have failed at this goal miserably for weeks. Up until the past week three-four...
Jan 14, 2025 | Publications, Writing Life
I’m excited to have a short chapter in a textbook that sees the light of day as a new publication this week from Bloomsbury. Careers in Library and Information Services is edited by Priscilla Shontz. My little chapter, “Author,” is in Part 5: Beyond the...
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