My daughter Pearl, now 20 years old, has wanted to be a famous singer since she was about 11. When she was in preschool her teacher Kathy told me that being around Pearl was like being in a musical because she was always singing. She has sung in school choirs all her life, and in church […]
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 […]