The best advice I’ve ever been given for getting unstuck is not specific. Whatever it is you have been doing, you have to change one thing. It truly doesn’t matter what you change. If you’re right-handed, try brushing your teeth with your left hand. Do it for a week. Just as an experiment. You’ll experience […]
If you happen to be in Bellingham today, don’t forget the Poets and Writers for Peace event at St. James Presbyterian Church. See my “Upcoming Events” page for more information. Here’s a poem from my friend, Carla Shafer, who organized this event. If Words Were Bones If words were bones we would be wisdom […]
I am in a whiny mood and having trouble concentrating on my work. Poor me! Then I remembered something from Jacob Glass. “In Beverly Hills, right now” (he speaks with a curious emphasis, an urgency that falls on key words), “there are people bitterly complaining because they just got home from Paris, and now they have to pack for Hawaii!” Last […]
When I was a little girl, eight or nine years old, it was decided that I should have piano lessons. My uncle–a high school math teacher (and later, the high school Principal, a sometimes formidable presence)–agreed to teach me. I began riding the bus home with my cousins on Wednesday afternoons. I remember being scared […]