8: June 27, 2025 In May, I wrote a quick note here so that I could keep up with posting at least once a month. I’ve been writing a lot but I’m in an in-between space with this blog, as I’m not sure where I want to go with it. It’s been such a good friend to me, at times really helping focus my energy somewhere, and yet I turn to it less and less. Perhaps it’s served its purpose. Tomorrow is the launch party for a book in which I am having a poem published. I’m working up my courage to read at ...
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7: May 31, 2025 May: tide pools and blooming flowers and goodbyes and hellos and the memories of 30 years hence and words on pages after pages. Worries about the world and joys with friends. So much love, such an abundance of love. Time falling upon itself. A forever-long log reaching the sea. A thousand, million, countless wishes for peace. For this whole, whole planet.
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6: April 11, 2025 As far as I can tell, people in Europe are flabbergasted by what’s happening in the U.S. (as so many of us in the U.S. are, too). Les temps sauvages, read one headline I walked by, with a red-faced man behind it. There is no confusing that I am American. I want to apologize, say I am confused too, say I am sad too. As always, I want to find a way to live here, which I’ve wanted under every administration. All these bikes. All this chocolate. All those terraces ready for wine and conversation. It is really something.
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5: April 5, 2025 In the last two months, I’ve gone through a submitting frenzy. I’ve got more pieces of writing – fiction, personal essays, and poetry – out in the hands of editors than I’ve ever had at one time before.  I’m preparing myself for a full slate of eventual rejections. I believe in my writing, I know I’m saying something here and there, but I don’t have clarity on how good it is, how objectively good it is. It’s just out there. And I’m not sure that there is an objective definition of good anyway.  It doesn’t matter. I’m glad I sent ...
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4: March 21, 2025 The clocks are ticking and the rooster across the street calls out and again I wonder if roosters are allowed in city limits but it doesn’t matter. Nothing really matters, every single thing really matters. There’s so much to worry about these days.  I went to dinner this week with two heart-friends who I have known for more than 20 years. In a tiny restaurant that used to hold a different restaurant that served only breakfast, we had delicious vegan tomkatsu, mine with an egg. We couldn’t not talk about politics. My friend just succeeded in getting German citizenship, which ...
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