A Petrified Forest

A Petrified Forest   The trunks and branches bare no leaves The trees still made sound The wicked wind from the West huffed and puffed The roots held tight to… Read More

The Book

Magnum Opus   During 2020, the year of pandemic isolation, I decided to focus the formidable abundance of “at home” time on a labor intensive computer project that I was… Read More

Creativity and the Body

Because reading about this is different for everyone and fraught with the complexity of experiences we have of our bodies, this won’t be a chirpy “do this” or “fix that” or “5 steps to happy creative work in your body” kind of blog post. Nor do I ask anyone to comment on the intensely personal, tender landscape of their bodies (or even to keep reading if this is traumatic territory). I’ll stick to my own experiences, that they may prompt your own creative work…. Read More

Life Imitates Art

Good fiction starts as late in its protagonist’s life as it could and still do the story justice. I think I’m approaching that time: the essential challenge, the seminal moment,… Read More

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