Be here now.

2020-03-192021-10-29

It’s really tempting to just binge-watch and eat all day.

A Room Of Your Own, Be here now., On writing

It’s really tempting to binge watch and eat all day while scrolling through all the distractions on my phone. One second another breaking news alert about the death toll or ... Read more

2018-02-072021-10-29

I’m still here, making time.

A Room Of Your Own, Be here now.

What? The theme of this blog is how to make time. In spite of all of the obligations we face as writers who also work full time, raise children, love ... Read more

2017-02-072021-10-29

It is called a mobile, after all.

Be here now., Goals, Inspiration, On writing

We had an unexpected dumping of snow in Olympia that afforded me a Monday snow day yesterday. This allowed me to easily and leisurely meet my word count for the ... Read more

2017-01-232021-10-29

Don’t push it. That’s my advice this week. Happy writing!

A Room Of Your Own, Be here now., Goals, On writing

Much better this week. Not perfect, but better. I wrote six of seven days. Slowly, but that’s my pace right now. I mostly got to bed by nine on the ... Read more

2016-06-222021-10-29

Learning from a confidence crash: Reflections from a writing retreat.

A Room Of Your Own, Be here now.

I started this blog as a way to keep myself writing. It was the same kind of desperate attempt to build good habits that causes people to talk their significants ... Read more

2016-03-222021-10-29

Monday, a run through the driving rain, hail, a sweet reminder.

Be here now., Goals, Inspiration, Movement

I started running at twenty four. I could not even run a mile before I started to wheeze. But, within two years, I was up to five miles five to ... Read more

2015-08-032021-10-29

Washing the dishes

A Room Of Your Own, Be here now., On writing

Just like the themes we are threading in our stories, these topics about the creative life resurface again and again. I’ve written many times before about focus, about staying in ... Read more

2015-06-242021-10-29

A celebration of the pause.

A Room Of Your Own, Be here now., Goals, On writing

I can be an intensely goal-oriented person, and mostly this has served me well. I wrote a semi-autobiographical novella in part about resiliency, or at least that was the seed. ... Read more

2015-01-142021-10-29

Zen Accident

A Room Of Your Own, Be here now., On writing

I began writing poetry at fourteen or fifteen, some terrible lost and vulnerable age. I wrote reams of poems about how profoundly I didn’t understand anything, using juxtaposed words like ... Read more

2014-05-302021-10-29

Dear Present Moment,

A Room Of Your Own, Be here now., Letters

Dear Present Moment, The click of keys. The ponderous pause. The long-distance stare. Alert, alive, creating. The problems to solve are diverse, complex, and many and I must be some ... Read more