This is something my daughter Pearl and I have been talking about. She loves music and has been in school choirs since she was a little girl. She wants to make a career in music, but hasn’t yet figured out how to get there from here. It’s a question I dealt with myself some years […]
Today’s Bellingham Herald includes an interview with my friend, poet Carla Shafer and the amazing poetry and dance presentation, “Phrasings in Word + Dance,” now in its seventh year. (April 5-7, tickets available on-line through Brown Paper Tickets.) In the interview Carla also reveals how the Bellingham poetry series, Chuckanut Sandstone, acquired its name: “One night, […]
After several weeks off — in theory to ski with my kids on Tuesday evenings — I am back at Writing Lab. Today we talked about publication, a word I can never hear without the palimpsest of Emily Dickinson’s “Publication is the Auction — / Of the Mind of Man…” Auctions aside, I believe publication […]
I had an adventure yesterday. While driving home from Chehalis, in my mom’s boat of a car, a Crown Victoria, I had a flat tire. A very nice man tried to wave me over, but — as I was also extremely sleepy and had weaved a little (I know, I know) — I didn’t realize […]