Paradoxically, writers in general are simultaneously notoriously reclusive and remarkably sociable. To do our work, we must spend hours alone with words, reading and writing…
Written on 07-14-2020 As advised, I try to follow a “living in the time of COVID-19” schedule. It goes something like this: 5:15 a.m. –…
An interview with Elizabeth Costello from The Write Stuff series: Elizabeth Costello writes arts and culture commentary, nonprofit communications, fiction, and poetry. Her chapbook RELIC was recently released by…
THINGS TO DO ON MY FOURTH MONTH OF SHELTERING IN PLACE Sleep inGet up at 5 a.m Purchase a backflow incense burner Spend half an…
An interview with Juli Delgado Lopera from The Write Stuff series: Juli Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer, historian, speaker and storyteller based in San Francisco. They’re the author…
Written on 07-06-2020 A week from today it will be exactly four months — one-third of a year! —that I have been sheltering in place….
A few years ago, my husband Jim was driving along a country road in North Carolina when a deer jumped in front of his car….
An interview with José Luis Gutierrez from The Write Stuff series: José Luis Gutierrez was born in Miami in 1975, and grew up in Panama. He lives in…
Written on 06-29-20 The news is drearily the same day after day. The government has all but abandoned any commitment to public health and is…
Written on 6-25-20 Life goes on as usual, and it stops as usual too. Life and death and progress or the lack of it are…