anxiety dream

I can’t remember the last time I had an anxiety dream about school.  It came in two parts, much like the program has a residency section and a non-residency section.
I’m a home for the first part, but home looks more like the crappy post-war urban sprawl of Orange County.  Not The OC everyone sees on [...]

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brass tacks

This is it, no more screwing around, time to get down to work.
The holidays more of less over I settled in to read the manuscript excepts for the upcoming Rez.  That’s what the old pros call the residency, the Rez.  Like some native creative sequestered to a colony of useless land away from the rest [...]

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memoria

We come to the end of the year and find ourselves taking stock.  Family, friends and holiday bring us together, the coming new year allows us to consider the future, goals, resolutions.
Though the calendar date is an artificial reference point we look back at what was, finding it difficult to have predicted the year that [...]

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attempting to clear the decks

The mail came today. The mail comes many days but today it included the manuscript excerpts for the upcoming January workshops. I was almost afraid to pick it up.
Why? All it contained were the ten excerpts from from everyone in my workshop, that can’t be too scary, could it? Actually, it [...]

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riding the train of thought

Last night Suze and I checked out Tin Man, the Sci-Fi channel’s “re-imagining” of The Wizard of Oz. Underwhelmed might be a good way to describe where I’m at with it (and what’s with the lame title, guys? The Tin Man’s not the story’s focal point!). It comes across as one of [...]

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