About the featured image: Every day I walk — I’ve walked at least 5 miles a day for 416 days in a row (yes, I’m a little compulsive) — and every day I snap a photo of something. Sometimes I post the photo at Instagram with #gratitude. I’d like to get more consistent about this, […]
One of my daughters is moving home temporarily, and cleaning out the bottom story of our house — which includes a mother-in-law kitchen we’ve never really used — has necessitated another attempt to reduce the amount of paper I’ve stored in bins and boxes. I threw away a bunch of old literature assignments, and I […]
Persimmon Tree Remember earlier this year when I spent 100 days sending out my work? Here are two of the results of that blitz, both of which hit my in-box or mailbox this week. The first is a creative nonfiction essay — “About a Marriage, from A to Zed” — in the superlative Persimmon Tree: […]
I opened the new issue of Passager (Issue 71, 2021 Poetry Contest) to find a Fall poem, and lost (or found) the next hour, reading poem after poem. It’s a wonderful issue, and I’m happy to recommend it—and not only because it includes a poem of mine. This poem makes me think of fall, though […]