Tony Hoagland said it so much better: “A real diehard, indestructible, irresolvable obsession in a poet is nothing less than a blessing. The poet with an obsession never has to search for subject matter. It is always right there, welling up like an Artesian spring on a piece of property with bad drainage.” (To read […]
Today is the 20th birthday of my older daughters, Annie and Pearl. I can no longer say that I am the mother of three teenaged daughters, which, I feel, gave me a lot of street cred. I so well remember being 20, and that sense I had then that my life was about to begin…but, […]
Still working on what I’ll talk about, but I would love to see some of my writing friends there — It’s about Time: July 11 – #285, 6 p.m., Seattle Public Library, Ballard Branch (click on the link to go to their site) Allison Green, Drew Dillhunt, Benjamin Schmitt, & Bethany Reid on The […]
Maybe you’ve heard this story before. A traveler stops to watch some men working. One man pushes a wheelbarrow past, and the traveler asks him, “What are you doing?” The man scowls and says, “What do you think I’m doing? I’m pushing this damned wheelbarrow. It’s all I do, all day long.” A few minutes […]