Monthly Archives: May 2012

Dear Imagination Tree,

Dear Imagination Tree, Half way into a ten mile run, half way up a doozy of a hill, you shifted my perspective the instant my brain received the sight of you. Trudging up that hill, by breath, by cadence, by

Dear Imagination Tree,

Dear Imagination Tree, Half way into a ten mile run, half way up a doozy of a hill, you shifted my perspective the instant my brain received the sight of you. Trudging up that hill, by breath, by cadence, by

A Room of Your Own: Boundaries

Let the people you live with know when you are sitting down to write. Tell them that for an hour or two or a page or a word count or whatever your goal is to please not disturb you. It

A Room of Your Own: Boundaries

Let the people you live with know when you are sitting down to write. Tell them that for an hour or two or a page or a word count or whatever your goal is to please not disturb you. It

Sunday Review – “The Summer Book”

“Dear God, let something happen….if you love me. I’m bored to death. Amen.” –Sophia Tove Jansson’s “The Summer Book” is the essence of summer.  It is warm, relaxed, fun.  It goes by so quickly. Jansson wrote “The Summer Book” when

Sunday Review – “The Summer Book”

“Dear God, let something happen….if you love me. I’m bored to death. Amen.” –Sophia Tove Jansson’s “The Summer Book” is the essence of summer.  It is warm, relaxed, fun.  It goes by so quickly. Jansson wrote “The Summer Book” when

Got it? – Guest Blogger, Nate

from Guest Blogger, Nate For the last thirty years or so, give or take, the thing that gets me tuned in and inspired to write is the cooking of barbecue.  I’ve been obsessed with cooking barbecue since my early teens,

Got it? – Guest Blogger, Nate

from Guest Blogger, Nate For the last thirty years or so, give or take, the thing that gets me tuned in and inspired to write is the cooking of barbecue.  I’ve been obsessed with cooking barbecue since my early teens,

Thursday Recipe – Grandma’s Bean Salad

Today’s Thursday Recipe is a bean salad my grandmother used to make.  As a child I once asked her how she got lucky enough to get an actual recipe named after her.  She told me it wasn’t her recipe but

Thursday Recipe – Grandma’s Bean Salad

Today’s Thursday Recipe is a bean salad my grandmother used to make.  As a child I once asked her how she got lucky enough to get an actual recipe named after her.  She told me it wasn’t her recipe but

Dear Paper and Pen,

Dear Pen and Paper, I bought a manual typewriter from a junk shop downtown Aberdeen and typed my first short story on it. I was eighteen. I didn’t own a computer until college. My son was just learning to walk

Dear Paper and Pen,

Dear Pen and Paper, I bought a manual typewriter from a junk shop downtown Aberdeen and typed my first short story on it. I was eighteen. I didn’t own a computer until college. My son was just learning to walk

The Review I Promised You: The Chronology of Water

The reading didn’t happen. I went to my first Gray Skies Reading Series with a marked-up copy of The Chronology of Water in hand only to find that there had been a change in plans. Yuknavich would be rescheduling the

The Review I Promised You: The Chronology of Water

The reading didn’t happen. I went to my first Gray Skies Reading Series with a marked-up copy of The Chronology of Water in hand only to find that there had been a change in plans. Yuknavich would be rescheduling the