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Reviews of the weather, books and other distractions Winter feels interminable this year. When doesn’t it? AI generated art by me, above. I’ve allowed myself to be a reader, not a reviser. My memoir is languishing, jostling the bits and bytes in my Macbook, sending up summer popsicle smells and unease. Mispellings in my emails […]
Read More Fallow Times4 things you can do right now to help your writing and writer’s career
Read More 4 changes writers can make NOWThe beauty of a lumpy, bugeyed tannic elastic species of toad.
Read More CanNibalistic tadpolesFind the gold in the pan. Revisioning your work as a writer with care and effect.
Read More Revision: re-envision, discoverWhen you find your voice you find your power. Learn how creating art creates new choices for trauma survivors to express joy and their inner creativity.
Read More Song: Selfish as a SphinxI’m never getting over it. I’m never going to heal. The number of family members who supported the evil president and the way we shied away from talking about it. For me, it was like endless, internal bleeding. I kept loving them and I hated them for it. I have so much fucking white privilege […]
Read More Blown awayWhy isn’t the ambient sound of each echoing soul okay on its own? The answer is—it absolutely is—but it gets less interesting unless the meaning of the sound is coordinated and organized into a “song”—a coherent narrative of art, creativity harnessed, into something the rest of us can absorb.
Read More The Memory in MemoirWhy advice sucks and I ain’t doin’ it no more. Not even grammar corrections.
Read More The End of Miss Anita KlooWhy dukkha and Senorita Squirrel face off. Anxiety disorder and the wild world of dentistry and small rodents.
Read More Senorita Squirrel and Dental Dukkha
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