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Thanks for stopping by! If you’re new here and want to keep up on poetry and 32 Poems, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. For the past few months, I’ve been on a Joan Didion kick. I read the heart-breaking story of life after the death of loved ones in The Year […]
The world provided more pleasant interruptions today. Funk music is on the radio. Millet with veggies is on the menu. I’m currently reading The Writing Life by Francine Prose. Currently doing: Yoga nidra.
Today is a day for nurturing, inventing, creating and eating well.
Be well everyone. I’ll be back tomorrow with more.
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From Elizabeth Gilbert’s web site:
Her essay mentions that she did not get a MFA. Instead, she took a series of odd jobs on ranches and in restaurants and kept writing and showing her writing to people. That reminded me of the debate that seems never to die: “Should You Get the MFA or Not”? That […]
A few moments ago, I finished the above book by Joan Didion. I read it because her husband and daughter died.
I read it because I have a husband and a daughter.
Grief.
I finished the book quickly. Reading it was painful. I wanted it to be over. The writing was beautiful, and I still wanted […]
Mary Biddinger’s book, Prairie Fever, arrived in the mail today. Yay.
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I’ve been going over what books to take with me to LA. We’ll take a guide of some kind, of course. Today, I was in the mood to read books about reading or writing, so I picked up Francine Prose’s book on reading like a […]
A lot of people ask me how I can do so much. It’s just how I am, so I don’t think about the process in detail. A few of the most time-consuming projects I have are day work, 32 Poems, writing poetry, mothering, wife-ing, keeping up social relationships, and working on other projects. Since I […]