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, […]
How did my daughters get so old? Today my twins–Pearl and Annie–those tiny babies that we brought home in 1993–turn 26. I have been reading old notebooks that I scribbled in when they were much younger (playing soccer, needing rides to friends’ houses and to the swimming pool), and I found this passage from the introduction […]
Some experiences seem beyond words. That’s how I’m feeling about my week in Chartres. And yes, I know it was a writing workshop, and that I should be perfectly at home, writing about it. But. So I went to Chartres for a writing workshop with Christine Valters Paintner. I wasn’t expecting a spiritual workshop focused on Chartres […]