There’s No Place Like Home
My family watched The Wizard of Oz recently. My sense of the movie has changed every time I’ve seen it, but my response to one...
In Which a Review of American Gods Turns into a Writing Riff
Fiction changes lives. I haven’t written fiction since middle school. (Except that one NaNo novel in 2008, but that was therapy.) Even so, I am...
A Second Serving – Interviews in Iceland
Far more interesting than my usual navel-gazing posts are the interviews I had with Icelandic musicians who are among the most intelligent, interesting, and entertaining...
Where the Muse Takes Me
One of the many things I love about the movie Dogma is Salma Hayek’s portrayal of The Muse – a feminist spirit determined to create...
Write-o-Rama Write-up
Last Saturday was Write-o-Rama at Richard Hugo House, Seattle’s own literary center that supports local writers in myriad ways. Hugo House is one of the...