Still working on what I’ll talk about, but I would love to see some of my writing friends there — It’s about Time: July 11 – #285, 6 p.m., Seattle Public Library, Ballard Branch (click on the link to go to their site) Allison Green, Drew Dillhunt, Benjamin Schmitt, & Bethany Reid on The […]
Maybe you’ve heard this story before. A traveler stops to watch some men working. One man pushes a wheelbarrow past, and the traveler asks him, “What are you doing?” The man scowls and says, “What do you think I’m doing? I’m pushing this damned wheelbarrow. It’s all I do, all day long.” A few minutes […]
“I have frequently seen a poet withdraw, having enjoyed the most valuable part of a farm, while the crusty farmer supposed that he had got a few wild apples only. Why, the owner does not know it for many years when a poet has put his farm in rhyme, the most admirable kind of […]
“To focus on what you don’t want and don’t like is like getting into your car and programming into your GPS the exact location of where you don’t want to go.” -Jacob Glass Fifteen–or sixteen–years ago when I was in the application process for my current teaching job, I came across a book by Jon […]