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The Writing Life
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This blog was created at the beginning of my life as a writer. I have given up full-time work in the "real world" and begun taking my creativity seriously. Check out my blog and support my site! Learn about day to day life, read something humorous, and maybe learn something new.
Recent Posts
For a Friend Arriving After Dark
Dear Friend,Thank you for braving the unseasonably cold temperatures, black ice, and wind advisory to deliver chocolate, edamame, and your smiling self to my door. Sixteen hours of rain followed by subzero temperatures (with wind chill) and snow flur...
Community of Potters
The word community comes from Old French comunete or, “reinforced by its source.” An Old English word for community was gemænscipe, meaning “fellowship, union, common ownership.” Attending tonight’s North Carolina Clay Club meeting, I felt...
Bird on a Wire
Dear Andrew Bird fans,Here is proof that I am not the only person profoundly obsessed with the musical evolution of Mr. Bird. While this article is nicely done, I will say it blurs over too many years with a passing glance. Still, a lovely take, and ...
Penny Pinching
The year after graduation from Whitman College, I joined two AmeriCorps service crews. I spent my summer removing exotic invasive plants from a globally significant wetland in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts. Following that, I moved up to th...
In Retreat
[I am doing a meditation retreat tonight through Sunday evening.]...
Testing for Sankyu (Part 3)
[Continued from yesterday]and the only thing I felt certain of now was that I didn’t know what was coming next.What came next, of course, were contact drills. But rather than full-on kumite, which a karateka of my rank should be tested on rigorousl...
