Returning to The Scene
I’ve taken two summer trips over the past two weeks. The first was a quick weekend away at the lake with two dear friends, and the second was a trip to Canada with my daughter for her sixteenth birthday. Each time I returned home from traveling, I experienced the ordinary images of my life with a renewed sense of clarity…
A Room of One’s Own
Last October, when our bathroom was ripped apart because of a water leak, my husband and I said to hell with it. Let's mess things up even more. The remediation offered an opportunity to rework other aspects of daily life that needed revising. It'd been a year since I fully committed to the writing life and was painfully aware that I needed my own office. With a door…
More Shadow Than Statue
When I sit down to write this newsletter, I’m not really sure what will come out. I chew on the cud of my current life and see what clumps together. How is the world speaking back to me, I think, and what is it saying? What I typically end up with is a slew of new questions rather than definitive answers, which is the exact theme that’s clinging to my psyche right now: DECONSTRUCTION.