Chuckanut Writers Conference

Chuckanut Writers Conference

by | Jun 27, 2019 | Writing

From the opening address by Sonora Jah—The Writer in Uncertain Times—to the closing address by Omar El Akkad—Lies of Our Own Making: The Obligations of Literature in a Politically Fractured Age—my hometown writing conference contained immense ideas, blood-pumping...
SHOTPOUCH

SHOTPOUCH

by | Jun 20, 2019 | Nature, Writing

A wash of pink spreads across the lavender sky. The apple orchard grays into view. Soon Shotpouch Creek will surface, rippled in white. But first something new: bits of darkness darting through the air. It’s too early for the robins that will dot the meadow feeling...
I WRITE MEMOIR, PART I

I WRITE MEMOIR, PART I

by | Sep 3, 2017 | Memoir, Writing

In the third grade, I read The Little House in the Big Woods series of books. You could write about your own life—what a revelation! I wanted to do that. But also, a disappointment—my life wasn’t as interesting as Laura Ingalls Wilder’s. Mine was a normal life. Two...
WHAT ARE YOU DOING TODAY?

WHAT ARE YOU DOING TODAY?

by | Jul 17, 2016 | Daily Life, Writing

The worst part of my day, on the days I run errands, is in the morning when I’m standing in the grocery store watching the clerk ring up my purchases and she asks, “What are you going to do today?” A part of me finds that question an invasion of my privacy, while at...