Making a book (Part 2): Finishing and starting

I want to tell you about finishing at 3a.m., when every last image was uploaded, processed, and correctly named, and every combed over. The house so quiet that it seemed to hum. Coyotes called when the moon came up, and later owls. A pair of screech owls in particular held a caucus: One shrieking to [...]

On making the book (Part 1)

I’m not sure where to begin: at the beginning, or at the ending, or right here, this morning, when I woke to the moon just slipping between the branches of the trees along the edge of the field, and Venus, a little higher up like a diamond against the pale lapis blue of the dawn [...]

I am in labor

It feels like I am in labor, to be this close with the manuscript. So close. But still, not there. Not where it needs to be. The final chapters dogging me, not quite right, not quite what they need to be yet. It’s like some part of my mind is sabotaging me into this stasis: [...]

HELLO, I MISSED YOU! I’m back from my offline adventures. Some highlights:

Hello friends! Thank you for holding this space for me. Your comments when I came back on line a few days ago made my heart smile so very wide. It was spectacular to take time off from the online world. To write, and write, and write. To notice things at a different pace. To fall [...]

On making space for the work I am doing:

Hello friends! My semester ended today, and fall is in the air even though it’s August still. You can feel it in the way the breeze is cool coming through the open windows in the morning, and the light is golden and slanted as it angles across the mountains after dinner. Twilight is already coming [...]