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Adapted from a class I taught for Clarion West

Aug 13

Some of the most preposterous mushrooms I've encountered, as well as a few I haven't.

Jul 12

Content warning: graphic descriptions of historical violence I began this essay on May 4, when Ida B. Wells received a much-deserved posthumous Pulitze…

Jun 24

At 3:15 pm today, after weeks of packing, spraying, scrubbing, and scouring until my knuckles swelled and my fingertips cracked, I turned in a bag of k…

Jun 1

Last week was the orange silk of highway poppies; today was the cottonwood, blowing fairy-fine through the air. If the strangeness of the present has s…

May 18

Victor Frankl, unemployment, surrender, & compassion

May 8

So you've adopted an author. Congratulations!

Apr 17

Self preservation for small, shining, curious creatures

Apr 2

Idles of the March King

Mar 14

How one publishes short stories hasn’t changed much over the decades. (Regrettably, neither has the payment.) If you were publishing in the sixties, th…

Mar 2

One Sunday morning in an autumn long ago, I woke up, prayed, and drove not to my church meeting but into the woods. And I worshiped there.

Feb 14

Resources and a recipe for the old-fashioned among us

Feb 2

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