I just turned in my grades for fall quarter 2018! Whew — that’s over! (Woo hoo!) I don’t know what I was thinking when I signed up to teach two courses this fall. Oh, yes, I do know. I was feeling a very evil pinch of “empty-nestitis” (just made up that word), and I was […]
Last year my editor at Goldfish, Koon Woon, sent me this link–to a 2017 PBS news story about poetry in Seattle. I recently ran across it while cleaning up my in-box, and I wanted to share it. “Navigating Seattle’s Ever-Evolving Streets Through Poetry”
Two of my girls dragged me to our discount theater last night to see A Simple Favor. It stars Anna Kendrick–they fell in love with her during her Pitch Perfect days–and my youngest daughter has seen A Simple Favor five times. They said I had to see it. It was a strange movie, and strangely entertaining. But among other, jazzier plot points, […]
This is my belated Thanksgiving post. I had lunch with an old friend today, and I spent a great deal of the time griping about my life. About my husband. About my difficult teenager. About all the sugar and starch I’ve been eating. About my difficult dog. About…well, pretty much everything. I’ve been feeling weirdly angry, and […]