Blog Posts

  • Progress!

    The first draft of “Fish Girl and the Kapok Spirits” is done and passed along to a few friendly but critical eyes for a look-see.  I am in that curiously optimistic state where I actually hope they have a lot to say about how it could be improved.  It is possible I have contracted some…

  • Coming home from skiing one day, Feb. 06

    Road salt spattered on the windows, masterpiece of winter graffiti, cannot hide the blue outside. Pale as robin’s egg it deepens as it stretches to the cloud kissed vaulted sky, dreaming in cold benevolence on all of us, buses and trucks, highways and signboards. My gaze flies up the window, soul follows, but I cannot…

  • The Mistimed Ones

    This is an older poem of mine, for which I love the concept, but I don’t feel like the execution is all that good.  I like some of the phrasing, but it’s an idea I think I might need to revisit now that I have some distance on it, and rewrite to get the style…

  • Current Writing Projects, Dec. 08

    Short Projects: 1 children’s story ready to send to publications, “Shimmers and Sea Stars” 1 ya/adult dark fairy tale 7/8 written, “Fish Girl and the Kapok Spirits” 1 near-novella, complete and in editing, “Of the Green World” Novels: 16 chapters of Dragon in the Hourglass written, end of the novel in storyboarding DitH sequel, Worldcrossers,…

  • I am in love with the hush of blank pages.

    I am in love with the hush of blank pages, The sweet siren song of white space– Waiting for imprints of thoughts leaving traces Like jet trails and sea glass and a laugh-wrinkled face.