“But the fire crackles, the patch gets sewn, the creek gurgles and thumps outside–A creek having so many voices it’s amazing, from the kettledrum basin deep bumpbumps to the little gurgly feminine crickles over shallow rocks, sudden choruses of other singers and voices from the log dam, dibble dabble all night long and all day [...]
The Union Square neighborhood of San Francisco has somehow become one of my favorite parts of the city. Perhaps it is sentimentality — Rosie and I stayed at a great, funky little hotel on Sutter St. on our honeymoon a couple years ago — but I think as much as anything, it is the feeling [...]
Thanks Lené, I need to write.
I don’t even know where the knife is anymore that the box was built to hold. It is a rough, unpainted wooden rectangular box about five inches long and made up of two halves about 1 1/2 inches high. An aluminum hinge at one end wasn’t my idea and was [...]
I need a vacation, I’ll say that much. Work has been nothing short of insane for the past couple weeks, and getting crazier exponentially every day. And with all the stuff coming up, I’ve dashed out of work on average a half-hour late and had errands to run or plans or any number of things. [...]
Every day I walk out into the world
to be dazzled, then to be reflective.
~Mary Oliver
I dreamt last night of an old friend who is gone in the West now. I dreamt my friend was home and high and goofy like he sometimes used to be and it was okay to tease him and laugh. I [...]
I don’t normally blog about blogging, but please excuse me while I briefly do so. I have made a pledge to myself to post something every day between now and our canoe trip in two weeks and to continue a very heavy amount of posting through the end of October. I think it is worth [...]
A chapbook I've published containing my writing alongside the work of some other talented folks.
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