I'm headed out on a fourteen hour drive from Texas to Illinois today, with Uno and Dos as my roadtrip buddies, so we can offer suppor...

The class I am taking this summer is about crafting the short story. I've never been a huge reader or writer of short stories, so I thou...

Soon, June. And a million new newnesses to explore. In May I realized I love writing each day when my voice feels authentic. Imagine...

You can find more wondrous words over at Crystal's blog today! I'm sinking deep into the moment tonight. All this talk of hikin...

Don't forget to hop over and see what Crystal is up to today! Maybe I owe it to the end of this first semester of grad school, but ...

Hop over to check out how Crystal celebrated Cinco de Mayo today! I have a little cupboard in my heart. It holds more things than one m...

It started with a poem. Ithaca  by Constantine P. Cavafy.  This poem is the inspiration for my last assignment of the semester. Write a Jour...

Go check out Crystal's post on New Orleans streetcars today! Tonight's post was supposed to be all about my exciting date night...

Pop on over to Write.Sketch.Repeat. for more poetry! In class this week, we looked at several of Rilke's poems. Afterward, we were...

Way back in the old days, long before blogging officially became a thing , I had my own little corner of the Interwebs where I posted my ...

Tonight I sent in my poetry for the third assignment in the class I'm taking. I set out to write poems from the perspectives of diffe...

Tonight I'm working on poetry. This is the third assignment of four, each a little different but all focused on creativity. I decided...

Summer. 1982. I was seven years old. My tender and loving second grade teacher had told us at the end of the year that in third grade we ...

Have I mentioned lately how much 2013 has been rawking my socks off? I mean, let's get serious for a minute: Completion of saving...

It's been a quiet day. Reading, writing, reflecting. I don't remember a time when I wasn't reading, asking for books, wanting...

This afternoon on FaceBook I read an article about Bridget Zinn , who was offered representation for her debut novel back in 2009. Not long ...

I sat forever trying to decide what to slice this evening... by 11:15 tonight these words started swirling around my head and I figured ...

I would love to write a slice today, but... There are 37 students taking their first four hour unit test tomorrow. And their second th...

November is definitely my favorite month of the year. Why, you ask? Well... It begins one day after Halloween (candy and  costumes, guys -...

I've learned a lot in the past six weeks, but mostly, I've (re)learned this: I believe in a reader’s right to choose. ...