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June 23, 2025
Try a vacation from a vacation!
August was our vacation month for some time. We took off for most or all of the month and traveled, usually out of the country. Then we spent the rest of the year swimming in memories of where we had visited, anticipating our next trip. But one of my best vacations was when, for a …
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June 16, 2025
How writing shapes us as we shape it!
From the window seat in our master bedroom, looking through the French doors into my study, I can see the white bookcases, lining one wall. They remind me of honeycombs we kept on the farm, books now the honey that my bees/mind goes after. They also are why I write, so I may add my …
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June 9, 2025
An ode to the imagination!
Recently, I tried revising a children’s story of a girl sleeping in an elegant dollhouse, an image I had in a dream awhile back that has stayed with me. But I felt extremely critical of what I wrote. I had to stop. For now. Let it breathe. Let the criticalness soften. Fall away. This morning …
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June 2, 2025
Revisiting Morocco in Paul Bowle’s THE SPIDER’S WEB!
I’ve been rereading Paul Bowles’ The Spider’s Web, hoping to renew our nine-day visit to Morocco that we did some time ago. The book has added to my understanding of Moroccan life, its pluses and minuses. Reading it was similar to visiting another country. The novel offers its own Morocco, the country of Bowles’ imagination. …
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May 26, 2025
On teaching writing
It’s 3:05 on a Thursday (many years ago now, but whenever I sit down to write, I’m reminded of these sessions). I’m sitting in my classroom, asking students to join me in putting their thoughts on the page. This is old stuff to me. On my own, I do it constantly, dribbling out lines that …
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May 20, 2025
How memoir shows that we’re all fictions?
I opened the I Ching at random this morning and came up with #38, K’uei / Opposition. The commentary says it is common for two opposites to exist together, needing to find relationship. I realize an opposition is being set up just in the act of writing my memoir Drop Out: my inner writer will …
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May 12, 2025
On not being perfect!
Over the years, I’ve spent considerable time in therapy, analysis, and self-reflection, examining dreams, my relationships with people in the external world and with the “little people of the psyche.” I’ve also practiced meditation, participated in worship at churches and synagogues, and had an active interest in the spiritual life. In short, I’ve tried to …
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May 5, 2025
Have you walked the labyrinth? Join me!
In medieval times, the labyrinth was considered the geographical and spiritual center of the world. Curious to experience what it’s like to walk one with other people, I enter San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral, remove my shoes, and begin my trek. The canvas surface feels rough against my bare feet, awakening the soles from their usual …
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April 28, 2025
What does thirteen mean to writers?
Recently I dreamed I was writing furiously on a piece entitled Thirteen Hills. This happened around the time I also was exploring the idea of a thirteen-month year by using the lunar calendar. When I awoke, I immediately thought of Wallace Stevens’ poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.” Of course, birds come to …
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April 24, 2025
Amazon is offering a sale on FLING! till 4/28. Buy it for only $12.98!
Is it possible to come of age at 60 or 90? Is it ever too late to fulfill your dreams?When ninety-year-old Bubbles receives a letter from Mexico City asking her to pick up her mother’s ashes, lost there seventy years earlier and only now surfacing, she hatches a plan. A woman with a mission, Bubbles …
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