When you read this, I'll likely be sitting on an airplane from Seattle to Paris. It'll be cramped and the flight attendants will be speaking in French and I'll have no idea what they're saying and the person next to me will look like they just got out of prison, or the hospital. Yeah, you're […]
(Brief aside: you know how you can remember the difference in spelling between dessert and desert? You want more of dessert, and thus it has two of the letter s in it. My seventh grade teacher, Charles Nakvasil, taught me that. He owned movie theaters after he quit teaching.) Last week I was out of […]
The crowd of writers probably will not be quite this rowdy. As you read this post, I will be attending the annual Associated Writer's Programs conference in Seattle, more commonly known as AWP. Rumor has it that 11,000 writers will be there, though I'm a bit suspicious of that number. (I've had numerous people, writers […]
I flew home from Paris last Sunday, and as I write this, I'm still a bit jet lagged. One of these days I'm sure I'll get back to a normal sleep schedule. I now seem to rise at 4:30 every morning–at least it gives me time to write. But I'm not complaining. Because travel–any kind […]
I have returned. France was wonderful. Paris has only gotten better in the years since I've been there, and Ceret, the small town in the south of France where I spent a week leading a writing retreat, charming. I had full intentions to blog regularly during my trip. Obviously, that didn't happen. To my credit, […]
Last week I drove to Baker City, Oregon with my friend Sharon. Yeah, I know, a lot of people here in Portland don't know where Baker City is, either. (For the record, it's about five hours east of here, in the dry side of the state on a high desert plateau surrounded by gorgeous mountain […]
One of the missions of this blog is to write about the writer's life, all of it, and for this writer (moi), travel for work is an integral part of it. My writing-related traveling began when I was accepted into the brief residency MFA program at Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky, and fell into the […]
Yesterday I wrote a post about my adventures in Nashville. Today, I'm writing about what you really want to know more on, some of the writing activities I partook of. Wait, that's a poorly constructed sentence, with that dangling participle. Today, I'm writing about the writing activities about which you want to learn more. Technically […]
You might have noticed my absence from this space over the last week. That's because I went to Nashville on a teaching trip, which was wonderful as always and also turned out to be a bit more adventurous than usual. To wit: –My husband got so sick before I left I almost cancelled my trip. […]
As I mentioned in my previous post, I'm in LA, actually Pasadena, visiting my dear friend Suzanne. I'm working a lot while here, but no matter, I'm somewhere other than my usual here. Last week I was at the Oregon Coast. Now, neither of these short vacations are trips to exotic locales. But they are […]
