writing small. making things with yarn. trying to have faith.
Selections from "Jazz," by Henri Matisse. At the Baltimore Museum of Art. This week I learned a new word (don't you love when that happens?), in a recorded session of a workshop called Create + Engage, hosted by Anna Brones, an artist whose newsletter is one of my favorite inbox arrivals. One of the guests… Continue reading Things Come Together
Note to self. When I started the MFA at Lindenwood U., I started blogging again so I could reflect on my MFA experience. I had good intentions (and you know what they say about those...!) of starting from the very beginning. Oops. I'm about to finish my fourth class in the program, coming up on… Continue reading Year (of MFA) in Review
Smithsonian Institute, D.C. After years--decades, even--of window-shopping for MFA programs, fantasizing about weeks away on residencies, deciding I was nowhere near ready to apply, tussling with myself about whether this is a wish or a pipe dream or a calling or just a relic of who I was once... .... I found and applied for… Continue reading Impulse? or Inspiration?
The word wall at Planet Word, D.C. From the time I discovered there was such a thing as a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing, I've wanted to do one. That was a long time ago, but for many years there was not a time when it "made sense" for me. Early on… Continue reading Who knows where, or when
Planting something new. 🙂 For a long time I've debated whether to pick up blogging from where I left off (for about the dozenth time), or to trash all my old posts (about 12 years' worth) and start fresh, or delete the whole darn thing and forget about it (in some ways the most appealing… Continue reading A New Season
a moving yarn: 