Thanks for your comments yesterday! It has felt fun to stay in touch, at least a little bit, this week. It’s the final day of my retreat–or morning, I should say, since I leave right after lunch to drive home. Wednesday had been cloudy, grey, blustery, so yesterday I went for a walk on the […]

Thanks, everyone, for your comments. Even though I’m not allowing myself to reply to emails and comments, I enjoyed reading each one! It as a terrific writing day yesterday. I powered through and finished a rough draft of the entire fairy tale collection. I lost motivation at one point, but I was so close I […]

I had a wonderful drive to Duluth yesterday morning–and I usually hate driving. But for my birthday (in addition to some Diet Irn-Bru) I got a nifty new voice/note recorder. So on the three-hour trip, I talked to myself the entire time, recording ideas here and there for specific poems. With my horrible memory, I think […]

Autumn is my favorite season. It’s the time when I remake my world. I get the kids back to school and I hang up my chauffeur cap and I jump back in to the ocean of words, swimming, floating, diving for treasure. But this year, not so much. Between activities for the kids and too many […]