My mother-in-law once told me that she is the kind of reader who will stop reading once an author makes a stranger’s mistake about a place. A character turns up a street that doesn’t really exist in downtown Chicago, or the Texas landscape is mutilated to satisfy a plot twist. She’s the kind of readerContinue reading “Native Plants”
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An Excuse to Make Pie
This week a fellow Pacific alumnus* posted an article about balancing writing with other work. The article points to a lot of what I did in grad school in order to eke out the time for the required reading, annotations, commentaries and writing: reading on the train during my commutes, writing at my desk duringContinue reading “An Excuse to Make Pie”
Grey Sea & Sky 