A month has passed since we left Soapstone, and I am finally ready to say goodbye. Please forgive the lapse in posts – breaking up is hard to do. I know that even escape grows old if it is your daily life, but I hadn’t quite hit the “I’m ready to miss this” moment at [...]

I’ve always felt that poems need to be ferberized.
For me, writing is like traveling to multiple dimensions and accidentally coming back very pregnant. When the writing feeling happens, the interstellar me is whisked off to another universe. This wispy version of myself spends the rest of the poem tucking the geography (and iconography) of the [...]

It should be noted (for this blog) that I am a horrible speller. Worse still? My grammar. I love language, but I abhor rules.
The 500 or so words that I do know how to spell can all be attributed to the scholarly skill of Mr. Gold at Woodinville Elementary School. Mr. Gold was consistently furious [...]