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 [...]
Thank goodness for bookstores
Look what I stumbled upon today at Literati Bookstore in downtown Ann Arbor, a little reminder of what fear can cause and why we need to be [...]
Garden as Artist’s Studio, Workshop as Garden
Much as I embrace No Attachment (and I have posted little signs above my desk that remind me of that), I feel that writing poems, indeed making [...]