Dec
07
the trees in December
I see now that I will never recover.
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Nov
29
practice and effort
I am so thirsty, and I wish I knew how to draw.
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Sep
11
there is no other world
I keep my old blog posts in an archive, in which I found this post from September 11, 2011. I
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Jul
02
where we live
For years I’ve encouraged my writing students not to be afraid to use proper nouns in their work: the
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Jun
11
making myself into the person who is capable
I first drafted these words last night, at the end of a frustrating work day—yet another day on which
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May
14
i would prefer not to
Last year was the first in a decade that I did not go to see the Bluebell Wood in bloom
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Apr
02
to be a restless searcher
My Writers Studio colleague Lisa Bellamy often describes the “healthy jealousy” that arises when a writer encounters work that excites
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Mar
19
on picking and choosing
Maxwell’s Demon, a being postulated by the physicist James Clerk Maxwell in his 1871 book Theory of Heat, plays
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Mar
12
what is wisdom?
Since last summer I’ve been a student in the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at Queens College.
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Aug
21
anatman
In March and April, I’d dream that we had come to the lake, and in my dreams I’d
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