Your art matters, even in times like this
The former director of the MFA program I graduated from signs all of his emails “Keep writing.” I used to think, oh! That’s nice. A little boost to my day, a reminder to keep pen to paper even when I’m…
Dealing with disappointment
My series on Dolly Chugh’s The Person You Mean to Be will resume with my next post, but today I want to talk to you about something cool that happened yesterday. Tuesday evening was rough. Last week I tried out…
The people who make up your network, or part 7 of live-blogging Dolly Chugh’s _The Person You Mean to Be_.
This is part 7 of a multi-part series on Dolly Chugh’s The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias. Chugh writes about how to move from believing in good, with all of its slippery connotations, to building structures in our…
What’s “safety” look like to you? Live-blogging Dolly Chugh’s _The Person You Mean to Be_
This is part 3 of a multi-part series on Dolly Chugh’s The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias. This book is about how to move from believing in good, with all of its slippery connotations, to building structures in…
“If it fits, I sits,” for dogs
I am sure you have all seen “If it fits, I sits.” No? This is a cat thing. Here is a video compilation for you, just in case: This is cute, even if I don’t quite understand the internet/meme-speak people…
What price attitude?
We’re still sitting in the Bergen airport, awaiting for our flight home from a packed trip with my parents. Jim and I took a day to decompress in this laid-back city by ourselves, which was a much-needed reprieve from the…
On the demonstration of joy
I want to take a second to talk to you about joy. So we can be on the same page, here is an official definition of it, from my favorite dictionary, Merriam-Webster: This a fine, workable definition for now. Now…
I visit with museum guards
Museums are my happy places. I visit them when I find a new city; I re-visit them when I go to cities I’ve been to before, too: I like to know what new things they are exhibiting, and maybe what…
My students want to read more, and it is a huge win for two reasons
Hello, everyone. This will be a short post, but I have been thinking about this thing that happened since it happened, and so I want to share it with you. Some of you may know that I teach creative writing…
I’m reading Moby-Dick, so you don’t have to
…Actually, I think everyone should read Moby-Dick. That doesn’t mean I admire the thing, it just means I’m finding it intriguing. This is my second attempt at reading it; I last tried in 2015 and made it all the way…
