In Bird By Bird, Anne Lamott suggests beginning writers should quickly get their ideas rough and messy onto the page. In fact she advocates they [...]

It's strange. The most destabilizing concept of the 20th century can also set you free. I love sharing excerpts from books with you, with the [...]

  Robert Frost once said: "No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader." Isn't this true of all art forms? I watch my [...]

  "Part of my mission in life is to notice and acknowledge people." ~ Scott Doyle When I heard Scott utter this phrase I knew [...]

Before you leave 2015 in the dust, consider honoring it with this exercise: Make a list of everything that was satisfying in the past year. [...]

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Is this you, too?  I am two in one, twenty in one! Perhaps you are as well, as multiple aspects of yourself vie for expression.  [...]

Biophony: the soundscape created by nonhuman creatures.  Coined by Bernie Krause. Some of the things he's discovered over decades of recording the natural world in [...]

I went for a walk with my friend Gil the other night . . . as I waited for him outside his home the streetlight [...]