Today’s Bellingham Herald includes an interview with my friend, poet Carla Shafer and the amazing poetry and dance presentation, “Phrasings in Word + Dance,” now in its seventh year. (April 5-7, tickets available on-line through Brown Paper Tickets.) In the interview Carla also reveals how the Bellingham poetry series, Chuckanut Sandstone, acquired its name: “One night, […]
After several weeks off — in theory to ski with my kids on Tuesday evenings — I am back at Writing Lab. Today we talked about publication, a word I can never hear without the palimpsest of Emily Dickinson’s “Publication is the Auction — / Of the Mind of Man…” Auctions aside, I believe publication […]
I had an adventure yesterday. While driving home from Chehalis, in my mom’s boat of a car, a Crown Victoria, I had a flat tire. A very nice man tried to wave me over, but — as I was also extremely sleepy and had weaved a little (I know, I know) — I didn’t realize […]
Yesterday afternoon I drove to Snoqualmie Pass to ski with my daughters and their friend Shana, only to discover that Summit had closed at 4:00. Unbelievable! It was a perfect afternoon. No precipitation, lots of snow on the ground. Not sunny, but bright. A spring day. The girls — I hate to call them […]