• Sunday fun: a frolic of a questionnaire

    Feel free to play along in the comments: any of or all ten.

  • Tell The Frankenstein

    I read this on Facebook: My son asked if the letter W started with a D. I wanted to do a gift book with quotes such as these, entitled Tell the Frankenstein because my son thought those were the words to, “Celebrate good times (C’mon).”

  • Japan, My Foot: Episode II

    Continuing, after a week’s pause in the action:

  • This is no mythic opening to an essay. This is true:

    I woke from a dream where I was on my knees in front of Best Small Fictions – whatever that means: on my knees. I was physically supplicant and simultaneously not there. Yet emotionally on my hands and knees. And Best Small Fictions did not look like this: It looked like this: I thought, “Are…

  • Play “Shoots & Writers”

    In Bali, merchants will give their first customer of the day a great deal, “Morning Price,” then lightly shake the cash over their goods. This creates good luck for the day’s business. On a similar note, on Monday, I begin my fourth attempt at finding a literary agent for As Far as You Can Go…

  • “Calm” by Master Iain.

    If y’all recall, a year ago at this time I had just returned from five weeks in Asia. (Can you even imagine it, now?) Any-hoo, there, I spent wonderful and invigorating time at Nam Yang Kung Fu Retreat in Northern Thailand. Now, given the impossibility of on-site training at Nam Yang, Master Iain is in…

  • Leaving Seattle, visiting San Antonio. Go figure.

    This weekend, I am signed up to go to San Antonio for a VBBC (very big book conference). Given that San Antonio was declared a State of Emergency for the virus, I was going to skip the conference. However, given that I live in Seattle, I decided: WTF. I could go to the co-op and…

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