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Bird by Bird

Morrie was right...
It's been an interesting time, full of interesting thoughts and dreams...My dreams today are very different from the dreams I would have described a year ago. They're exceptionally different from those I would have dreamed 10 years ago.And yet, this is the

It's not much of one, but it is a post...
I've posted over at The Master's Artist today. It's not much of a post here to just post that I've posted elsewhere, but it's all I can do.My other writing (a.k.a. my novel) is coming along swimmingly, which is why the pickings on this blog have been barely enough to keep a small bird from starving. Sorry. I can't offer any brilliant excuses so I'll just tell the truth!Arizona has been an interesting adjustment. That is the right word to use when you're trying not to come right out and bash something, isn't it? To all you Arizona lovers out there, I simply say: I must not be wor

Another Installment With Annie
"At it's best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it. You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you. From the corner of your eye you see motion. Something is moving through the air and headed your way. It is a parcel bound in ribbons and bows; it has two white wings. It flies directly at you; you can read your name on it. If it were a baseball, you would hit it out of the park. It is that one pitch in a thousand you see in slow motion; it's wings beat slowly as a hawk's."-Annie Dillard, The Writing LifeFor more thoughts on Annie and her writing, a