An Hour A Day

When your birthday happens to fall on the date of a total eclipse of the sun, and your younger son has given you eclipse glasses on the prev...

Every once in a while the universe delivers to each of us one perfect day. Yesterday was one of mine. My writer friend Sarah organized a ...

One of my beloved former creative writing students just emailed me with the plaintive question: "So how do I get rid of this self-doubt...

I'm home from my six-week teaching stint at Hollins and immediately launched into a ten-day grandmothering stint here in Boulder. I have...

I finish up my summer teaching stint at Hollins University in Roanoke to head back to my home in Boulder in five more more days. I know exac...

Here at Hollins, the office I've been assigned in Swannanoa Hall (isn't that a wonderful name?) is perfectly adequate, but uninspiri...

One of the best things about teaching in an MFA program, as I'm doing right now in the graduate program in children's literature at ...