First Impressions and Take Home Lessons: AWP Conference
I wasn’t going to attend the Association of Writers and Writing Programs 2014 conference. AWP is rooted, as the name implies, in academic programs and...
Get Your Papers Together to See Seattle Opera’s The Consul
A modern, English-language opera about a woman fighting bureaucracy sounded like a painfully tedious proposition – too much like my real life. But I attended The Consul at...
Rigoletto at Seattle Opera
La Bohéme has a special place in my heart, but Rigoletto is a better opera. Which explains why, at the end of the holidays when...
You Me & Apollo Play in a Living Room
It takes a lot to drag me out on a Tuesday night. I really didn’t want to leave the house this time, either. But You...
Canon Fodder
I won’t pretend I’ve never poured Southern Comfort into a McDonald’s milkshake. But Jameson and Glenlivet feature more prominently in my stories of college-era drinking...