Because a friend asked me to tell her about my morning journal habit, I’ve been thinking about what exactly it is that I do. Complain. List things-to-do. List things done. Check off things done. Kvetch. Write letters to myself (Dear Wise Self: …). Record dreams. Groan. Write metaphors. List words (windy words, horse words, words […]
I read a number of book- or writing-related blogs, including CrimeReads and LitHub, not in any orderly way (you understand) but sort of when they hit my email at the right time and when I’m of the right mind. Just now I am between big deadlines. (What does that mean?) Last week I turned in my […]
Just a note to let you know my book review of Fatemi’s Sister Tongue is now posted at EIL. Book Review-Sister Tongue by Farnaz Fatemi
In a previous life, I was a waitress…before that, a farm girl. I spent a lot of my farm-girl childhood pretending to be a horse named Stormy. I think somewhere in time I was a tree. In my next life, I’d like to teach a class called “Writing YOUR Memorable Poem,” and this is one […]