Let People See: A Poetry Playlist I would like to suggest that poetry can function as a playlist to inspire, inform, and ultimately sustain any mode of…
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March 2022

Art as Origin

February 2022

A Writing Prompt Response

January 2022

On Presence and Change

October 2021

stay together / learn the flowers –Gary Snyder, Turtle Island Fall is my favorite season. At its peak, something about the atmosphere makes me feel…

September 2021

In the far corner of my backyard, beneath the eaves of a mossy-roofed shed in need of new shingles, bald-faced hornets have built a nest. My son pointed…

August 2021

The most recent installment of GWA’s Writing Prompt Wednesday was by all appearances simple: Write about your writing agenda. I scrolled past when I…

June 2021

For me, rainy mornings bring a longing for creativity and restoration—an inclination to read or write, to listen to music, to sit and reflect. Something…

May 2021

These lulls are my riff Natalie Goldberg’s style of prompts from Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir, a resource I often use in…

April 2021

In my last entry, I ended on a note about finding myself in a creative void—a funk, as these things go—driven by many factors I wrote about and many I…

March 2021

Just over two years into this blog, and I feel like I’ve lost my way. I’ve felt this sense of aimlessness in wisps before. 25 entries, 25 months: It’s a…

February 2021

I’ve lately been reconsidering just what it is I value about writing, and why I take the time to do it at all when it has meant so little, at least in…