I’m taking part in a blog tour of other writers who talk about their writing process.  Sarah Wells, a poet and fellow grad student who’s studying Creative Nonfiction, asked me to participate.  Sarah and I know each other from our blogs, but we also send each other our writing once a month, and this week I get to meet her… View Post

              When I’m reading a book, I often daydream about how I would teach it. If I were teaching Girl Meets God, I would make sure to read the chapter “Albermarle Pilgrimage” out loud. I would suggest my students pair up and read it interpretively because the trip Winner and her mother take in an… View Post

Watching this reaction to a seventy-five cent video game ride in the mall on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Watching my girl dancing. Being the first to make footprints at the “Little Park” in the March snow. This typewriter. How awesome would it be to bust this out at a Starbucks? Greeting these guys in the evening and telling them to… View Post

*The view from my bedroom window. Every morning I wake up to the best sunrises I think I’ve ever seen in my life. *The block I’m living on this week.  These houses are so cute. *Another view of where I’m staying, this one taken on a morning run. *My walk down to class and meals each morning has me checking… View Post

{enjoying} a ballet performance and a rainbow on the same afternoon. (Harper doesn’t usually dress like a Village Person but for some reason at this moment she wasn’t wearing pants so there you have it.) {flying} to Whidbey Island today for my second to last residency. Next trip is to graduate.  As I type this, I’m looking forward to a… View Post