Why writers need to shut down their computers and go away: Ode to a Book (1) (excerpted) When I close a book I open life. I hear faltering cries among harbours. … Book, let me go. I won’t go clothed in volumes, I don’t come out of collected works, my poems have not eaten poems […]
So this happened in Publisher’s Weekly today. And I am very very happy. It is, by any standard, a dream come true. Here’s to working hard, writing hard, and to 2014!!!
Well, as I wrote in my last post, I went to Nepal. Why, many people asked. Work? Volunteer commitment? Family connections? Nope. The answer, to quote the famed climber George Mallory,when asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest, is simple. “Because it’s there.” Now I will be quick to point out that we did NOT […]
So I realize I don’t write regularly but this is a longer hiatus than usual. I meant to write a long log post leading up to it, but the fact is that I left home almost two weeks ago to trek in the Himalayas, near Mount Everest, with my family. And I am there right […]
An Open Letter to Ann Coulter. Let’s start by saying that Ann Coulter is an asshat and not worthy of acknowledgement. But I’m posting this response by John Franklin Stephens to her word-vomit because to me it is the epitome of respectful* discourse. He writes: I thought first of asking whether you meant to describe […]
The second half of my life will be swift, Past leaning fenceposts, a gravel shoulder, asphalt tickets, the beckon of open road. The second half of my life will be wide-eyed, fingers shifting through fine sands, arms loose at my sides, wandering feet. There will be new dreams every night, and the drapes will never […]
