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Entering Place--

Come Closer: Two Essays

Upcoming Online Intro Course

Art + Ideas...

Enjoy the Day, Take Care of Yourself!

Personal...Essays...anyone?

If You're in Portland...Room for One or Mayyyyybeee Two More People in....

All The Beauty and the Bloodshed

Stories on Sundays

If You're in Portland--Don't Forget...

The Raggedy Edges of the Art World

The Hand That Feeds You, and The Hand That...

The Enormous Laptop--

Three Things--

Naming Names

Tell Me--What Would You Most Like to Write?

Perhaps You'd Like a Trigger Warning?

I Appreciate You! :)

Upcoming Writing Classes--

Thank You, I Had a Blast! :)

Good Times! Good Work.

Writing, Teaching...Building a Better World?

If You're In Portland--A Mixer, A Visit

If You're in Portland--Come Talk Writing, With Me? A Community Chat. xo

A Moment in Time--

One Zine Scene

Looking at New Work, Other Cities

What is the "Writing Community," anyway?

Didn't see this, at the time...

About Books....

On Story Medicine; Writing For Story + Social Change

On Publishing, Writing, Living this Life.

Susan DeFreitas, and the Lan Su Chinese Garden...

How To Keep Working, Despite it All....

THRUST: Checking in With Lidia Yuknavitch....

Sharing One Poem, one Ukrainian Poet...

Pausing--

Write, Read, Draw.

And the File Says...

The Shoelace...

I Wrote an Essay, and...

I appreciate the shout-out…

48 Hours = 9 Months

"...the pleasure of giving respect."

Does one say "Happy" Martin Luther King, Jr., day?

Interesting Stories Happen...to...

Wait! First, Protect Your Darlings--