It’s Friday again and you know what that means! It’s time to rest. If you feel up to it, I invite you to experiment today, in whatever way you choose to interpret that. Experiment with a sense of play. For me, today, that means playing…
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For Juneteenth I want to raise money for Black Lives Matter. My partner works for a corporation that’s double-matching employee charitable contributions through the end of June and I want to leverage that for my friends’ contributions. So, my proposal is this: I’ll announce this fundraiser…
I first understood how serious this was because I was lucky enough to have a student from Beijing who had been watching Wuhan unfold first hand. In the second week of classes she showed me videos of her friends and family and colleagues as they…
Fellow #Clarion17 student Ted McCombs has written a beautiful Clarion Field Report. For six weeks, eighteen of us spent all day, every day, writing new fiction, reading each other’s stories, and critiquing each of them. In the words of our Week 1 instructor, Lynda Barry,…
After D and I bought a home here in SoCal, we suddenly became intensely aware of how much we were spending. It kept us in a mild state of panic as we looked at the bills and wondered how on earth we could possibly have…
Last night I re-watched the 1982 TV movie adaptation of The Scarlet Pimpernel, with Anthony Andrews and an absolutely magnificent Jane Seymour. I’m pretty sure we had that movie on VHS when I was growing up, because I know every scene by heart and could…