For most of this year, and obsessively this summer since coming home from France, I’ve been working on my mystery novel. But summers have not, historically, been my best time for getting work done. Summers are usually my time for letting work lie fallow. Summers are for hanging out with my kids. Summers are for […]
Our reading at Elliott Bay Books is only one week away! Here’s a poem from Ed’s newest book. I’ve discovered that you can find him all over the web, including Verse Daily and Terrain. One of the things (or two) that I love about Ed’s poems is their range. He strikes me as a thoroughly Pacific […]
I am challenging myself to create a small, private class this fall. I promised myself that I would begin planning it this week. When I wanted to learn to play the piano, I bought a “teach yourself” book–but after the first time sitting down with it, I…basically…never again opened it. I needed a teacher, and […]
On Friday, August 16, at 7 p.m., I will be reading from Body My House at Elliott Bay Book Company. I’m thrilled (of course) and very very grateful to poet Ed Harkness and Elliott Bay Books for inviting me. Wouldn’t it be lovely if about 50 of my nearest and dearest friends could join us? (Yes, […]