Orion Magazine Recommends A Fine Canopy
This fairly extraordinary and completely unexpected news filled my screen yesterday when I opened my newsletter from Orion magazine, a magazine I have read and loved for [...]
Tell Me What You Would Have Told Me
One year ago this book released into a pandemic and the most consequential election in modern times. Remember how nervous and weary so many of us were [...]
This Cool Thing Happened to my Poem
This cool thing happened because of my new book. I don’t have a picture, so bear with me, please, as I recreate with words the photo that was [...]
Here Is an Idea for Your Saturday
This post is dedicated to the stranger I recently encountered, sitting on a park bench, next to a community garden, reading a book in the sunshine. I am lucky [...]
I Want to Throw a Huge Party
Yesterday I walked up the brick walkway from my little writing shed to find that a small cardboard box had been placed outside our door—kind of decoratively [...]
On ignoring the news for a minute
A couple of days ago, I was the fortunate recipient of a songbird's wakeup call. Our family calendar and the texting app on my phone had my [...]