Spirited Writing and Reading for Weird and Wonderful Human Beings
I’m mostly just trying to figure out how to do “human being.”
The tools I use are writing, reading, relationships…. And like the rest of us, my best tool is my own story and its unique collection of perspectives (writer, teacher, professor, autistic, sexual abuse survivor, truth-teller, parent, aspiring artist).
It felt strong. It felt brave. It felt powerful. It also felt sad. Unexpectedly, desolately sad. I've always said "When I have an emotion, I'm usually last to know." That's not …
Yesterday I and a few other people abused by my childhood coach saw him sentenced to prison in Texas. Ricardo Delgado's story in the San Antonio Express-News here. Zachary Taylor Wright's …
I have a writing hangover. It’s that feeling I get when there’s been something I wanted to write, or needed to write, and haven’t been able to, and then I finally …
It’s April Fools Day, and I can’t take a joke. Like, at all. Every time I’ve been fooled or pranked or tricked, the way I feel is not amused, but ashamed. …
What a day of wonder. I’m in Austin, TX, Texas being my homeland and site of a whole lot of memories of all colors and temperatures. Today I tagged along with …