Welcome to my first video post! To celebrate the publication of Circling Toward Home, I invited friends and family to join me for a special spring book launch event. This post contains the 30-minute interview/Q&A portion of the Zoom event along with a separate segment in which I read a 12-minute excerpt from my story. […]
almost live and in person! Read More »
It all adds up. I just haven’t figured out how yet. The same day I retrieve my beloved from the loading lane at a top-ranked hospital (according to the billboard-sized banner on the side of parking garage) several days after her hip replacement, I get an email that says my pandemic-year essay entry won a
learning to listen Read More »
From the Dreamer Clan I have learned to see past the stars and into the eventual darkness that accepts everything, accepts the volume of human knowledge and its stories of oppression and wonder, accepts the music of waterfalls and the silence of caves, accepts the bad hair days and the soured milk, accepts the Chinese
With clear pitch and a sense of conviction, these guys were telling me something I needed to hear. My synapses popped like firecrackers. Pow. Pow. Pow.
Wouldn’t it be rare and wonderful for these streets to become known as emblems of neighborliness, our best intentions floating around our homes like party balloons.
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I woke up in the dark hours with one word in my mind. Radiate.
electing self-care Read More »
