I’ve told my 9-11 story often, but have I written it? I must have. How will I write it now, twelve years later? I just did a mental stumble there—why do this? Does my story matter? If it matters to me, then it matters. There, I just stumbled again.  I need to get out of…

Tonight I will go to the Mary Miller Theater in Lafayette to see “A . . . My Name Will Always Be Alice,” and tomorrow to The Avenue Theater in Denver for “Unfolding,” a one-woman show by Delta Donahue. Wednesday I heard the CU Jazz Combo play live Latin jazz at the Broomfield Audi. Great…

This morning I plucked from the library Mary Ruefle’s collection of lectures on poetry, Madness, Rack, and Honey. I trundled it off to brunch with me and prepared to enjoy this book that I’ve longed to read for some time now. And now was that time made real, thanks to our inter-library loan system. (Ironically,…

Last week I wrote about using Natalie Goldberg’s approach to writing, in essence, letting Wild Mind loose on the page. I have to tell you, IT WORKS! Now I’m adding to that a concept from Ken Wilber. (Oh, be still my heart, he’s going to be at Lighthouse this evening.) In No Boundaries, Wilber writes…

TADA! The Front Range Community College catalog is out: please, go to Continuing Ed, search Writing at Westminster campus and sign up for WRIT 2006-001: Creative Writing: Process & Practice and/or WRIT 2014-001: Creative Writing: Techniques of Contemporary American Poetry. At $80.00 + 3.00 for materials, it’s a bargain, averages out to 10.00 per session.…