Publish or…perish in a sea of procrastination
I just lost a post I was working on a bit yesterday. Sometimes a little data loss can make you feel like life is out of whack, like something is gone and will never quite be replaced. And it wasn’t even super deep or fascinating, just thoughts that had come to mind over the course […]
Why I Write
{This piece has been sitting in some part of my brain for a long time. I’ve seen it in a few places – it was a poster on the back of a friend’s bedroom door, and in some notebook at my parents’ house, I’ve written it all out in turquoise fountain pen. Over the years, […]
Nothing about silence
“1970 knows nothing about isolation and nothing about silence. In our quietest and loneliest hour the automatic ice-maker in the refrigerator will cluck and drop an ice cube, the automatic dishwasher will sigh through its changes, a plane will drone over, the nearest freeway will vibrate the air. Red and white lights will pass in […]
Part of the joy of writing
“Isn’t that part of the joy of what we do? When whatever it is that makes us writers fires at the right time and at the right place, and the perfect word/phrase/sentence in exactly the right place happens? It can happen anywhere—you could be somebody who’s doing four running stories in an afternoon at a […]
Happy happy anniversary…to me!
Kind of hard to believe, but today marks the 3 year anniversary of this blog. What started as a way to keep in touch with friends while I was in Spain and traveling around Europe has morphed into something…else. From Spain, the blog’s theme was so easy – it was about writing about my experiences. […]
I like writing, photography, reading, music, design, typography, paper products, days in the seventies and sparkly snow, Spanish wine and cans of PBR. I spent a year in Córdoba, Spain, working as a 
