At last night’s workshop, Shawna and her students didn’t need to talk about resistance. They brought notebooks and pens! They also brought up some additional important points about keeping a journal, and they jogged my mind to come up with a couple others. Don’t worry about spelling, grammar, or penmanship. Just write. Writing in a […]
This evening I am taking a class on “Mindful Living” from my friend Shawna Michels, and I get to talk for a few minutes about keeping a journal. I think I can credit Heather Sellers with the denigration of that phrase “keeping a journal.” She said (somewhere) that she didn’t want a “kept journal,” that […]
I’ll be reading poetry tonight in Wallingford — just on the open mike, J. I. Kleinberg is the featured reader — and you may as well come along. (Follow this link to learn more: http://easyspeakseattle.com/welcome-2/previous-featured-artists/j-i-kleinberg/) I assume there will be some tributes to northwest poet Carolyn Kizer, who died last week at the age of […]
I think it was my friend Carla who told me that the opposite of Lent, or Lenten, that 40 days preceding Easter, is Fallen. (I think this was fall of 2011, when I blogged for 40 days in a row.) My mother, after sleeping pretty much steadily for two days this week, was evaluated by paramedics […]