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Edmonds Bookshop EventsJanuary 19, 2023 - 11:43 pm
It has been a busy week and a busy day, but I wanted to take at least one minute to invite you to Edmonds Bookshop — tonight, optionally (as you have almost zero notice), but whenever you’re looking for quality books, great customer service, mail-order (!) and, generally, an opportunity to support and enjoy an […]
Blessings for a New YearJanuary 8, 2023 - 4:23 pm
Our Advent book takes us through Epiphany, so we are still meeting, and I am still sifting through poetry to find something apt to share with the class each week. This morning I read from John O’Donohue’s book of blessings, To Bless the Space Between Us, and found a poem titled “For the Artist at the Start […]
Giving Thanks for 2022January 1, 2023 - 12:39 am
This afternoon (Dec. 31) I helped pick up fir and cedar limbs in our backyard and now my arm is twanging. It’s been 4 weeks! Isn’t it fine now? But I promised myself I would do an end-of-the year round up of my submissions, and I’m not going to let my arm stop me. If […]
Winter Solstice GreetingsDecember 21, 2022 - 8:16 pm
Here in my neighborhood north of Seattle, Washington, we have had our second snowfall of the year—about three inches yesterday and the evening before. Today, it’s 27 degrees (low of 19!) and the sun is shining. Outside my window: glittering white. On December 1st, despite slush and ice, I set out for a long afternoon […]
I Made a Place for YouDecember 1, 2022 - 11:29 pm
One cool perk of blogging is that occasionally complete strangers contact me out of the blue and ask if I would like to have a book. My answer is always, Yes! Book, please! This week’s mail brought me a chapbook of poems from Atmosphere Press, a debut collection by Damian White, of Columbus, Ohio. When […]
Give ThanksNovember 24, 2022 - 8:23 pm
The Books I’m Thankful for Today one In October I enrolled in another Hugo House poetry class, again with the amazing poet, translator, and teacher Deborah Woodard. The class focused on the work of Fernando Pessoa, born in Lisbon in 1888. Our main text, Fernando Pessoa & Co., edited and translated by Richard Zenith, gathers together work by […]
Dancing with the Muse in Old AgeNovember 9, 2022 - 12:33 am
I cannot say enough about this amazing book by my good friend and long-time co-conspirator in all things creative, Priscilla Long. Watching Priscilla produce this book, reading drafts, devouring a number of her sources, has been a game-changer for how I think about aging, and how I want to behave in my next chapter. To […]
The Morning WriteOctober 13, 2022 - 8:50 pm
Because a friend asked me to tell her about my morning journal habit, I’ve been thinking about what exactly it is that I do. Complain. List things-to-do. List things done. Check off things done. Kvetch. Write letters to myself (Dear Wise Self: …). Record dreams. Groan. Write metaphors. List words (windy words, horse words, words […]
Reading AroundSeptember 16, 2022 - 4:28 am
I read a number of book- or writing-related blogs, including CrimeReads and LitHub, not in any orderly way (you understand) but sort of when they hit my email at the right time and when I’m of the right mind. Just now I am between big deadlines. (What does that mean?) Last week I turned in my […]
Farnaz Fatemi’s Sister TongueAugust 26, 2022 - 3:39 pm
Just a note to let you know my book review of Fatemi’s Sister Tongue is now posted at EIL. Book Review-Sister Tongue by Farnaz Fatemi