Sordid Blog

I really can’t think of anything about the trip to San Francisco that has been bad.  Somethings have been a little disappointment, but you know, did I really expect that I’d have free massage services at my hotel? Meetings on Thursday, parties; sessions this morning, chairing and responding to a brilliant and wonderful session with [...]

I’m off for the weekend to Burnsville, NC, for a writing retreat with the Tar River Writing Project & the UNC-Charlotte Writing Project … hoping next year to have the  capacity and ability to host our own writing retreat somewhere …

 

 TRWP on WUNC's "The State of Things" [17:28m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

Seriously, it feels strange to self-promote on one’s blog, but I feel I must.  I mean, blogs are these really objective, newsy, self-effacing spaces, so this feel so awkward to talk about myself.  Yet I must.
Yesterday, two teachers from the TRWP and I were interviewed on local NPR station WUNC for Frank Stasio’s “The State [...]

Part of me thinks I’ve lost my mind for coming into the office @ 7:00 a.m., but I got in the habit the last four weeks for the TRWP, and now the dogs get up and we walk and what am I to do? Just sit around the house?
This morning = review manuscript for English [...]

I know … I keep loading my blog page and feeling guilty that I’m not writing anything.  But the Tar River Writing Project has begun and that some full days-o-work, I’m here to “T” …
This morning, I met the group at Starbucks and sent them on a Writing Marathon.  I called it, somewhat cleverly, IMHO, [...]

One of my favorite little poems from childhood is e. e. cummings’ “maggie and millie and molly and may” …
maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach(to play one day)
and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles,and
milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;
and [...]

OMG, I cannot believe how good today has been.  First, I met with Todd for 1.5 hours to get ready for the CFA for the TRWP.  Then, I met with the graduate student who is going to be helping to run the Writing Studio in my place next semester (as I’m on leave).  Then, I [...]

Lied Lodge has the cleanest bathrooms of any hotel/conference center I’ve ever been in, and simultaneously the WORST coffee I have ever consumed … no amount of sweetener or creamer will help this sad liquid …

So last night, on the way to dinner in a remodeled train station, we pass the courthouse, where we see a wonderfully large monument of the 10 Commandments. Apparently, it was a struggle to get them there and keep them there, but there they are. I knew I wanted a picture, but what [...]

Reluctantly, I must add. Robin and I took off from Brattleboro on Saturday around 1:00 pm after a delightful morning at the local farmer’s market — where I bought some amazing strawberries and several kinds of tomatoes (green Germans, a huge Cherokee purple, a few basic beefsteaks) — and a few minutes in [...]