Today’s One-Liner (#95)
I feel very rich when I have time to write and very poor when I get a regular paycheck and no time to work at my real work. –Natalie Goldberg, Writing down the Bones
Category: Writing to Wake up
Today’s One-Liner (#89)
My job has been to spread the writing gospel. –Natalie Goldberg, The True Secret of Writing Sao Paulo; photo by Mev, September 1990
Writing Bliss Class: Fall 2024-Winter 2025
Recently my friend Lindsay Wolff inquired if I was doing a writing class this fall. Giving it some thought, I decided to offer the following just because I thought it could be (1) a fun …
The Next Time I Go to Latin America by Amy Nuismer
From my archives– 3.14.2012 Amy and I wrote in our notebooks the other night at Hartford Coffee. Here’s one of the pieces she penned… The Next Time I Go to Latin America It Will…
Bucket List/1
To love my enemies To be here now To smile at every child I meet To travel in my mind’s eye to Rafah, Gaza and remember the beauty of the people To encourage 237 more…
Huzzah!
Life would be much more exciting if each of us left a trail of “little sparks of appreciation” along our way.–David Dunn, Try Giving Yourself Away In August of 2021 I finished my fifth major…
Somewhere Along the Line the Pearl Would Be Handed to Me
In the bar I told Dean, “Hell, man, I know very well you didn’t come to me only to want to become a writer, and after all what do I really know about it except…
Share the Wealth: Writing with Yael
#1Last Night’s Email from Jessica Flier I write, becauseFirst and foremost, I must!But also – because,Of you.To take the broken heart and expose itbring the carefully concealed underbelly to the surfaceresisting the urge to hide…
I Remember High School (after Joe Brainard)
I remember getting on the school bus before 7 am. I remember it was an old man who picked us up, hell maybe sixty-one years old! I remember reading Richard Lattimore’s translation of the Iliad…
From a Recent Notebook
Of course, Diane di Prima is in My Canon… Because she honored Suzuki Roshi’s unprecedented presenceBecause she made the case for old-school being literally in touchBecause she gave primacy to cosmologyBecause I gifted C. with…