Essays/Stories/News

Oct 23, 2021

Decisive Details:

on communicating what matters Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson once wrote: “What the eye does is to find and focus on the particular...

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Jul 24, 2021

Creative Generosity

Art, Generosity, and Life Art is not a competition. Art enriches us all. Life is not a competition, either. I’ve been working my way...

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Aug 16, 2020

Creation in Times of Strife

And then… The slow return to the sense of feet on ground. The slow return to the sound of birdsong, or cars, or laughter. The slow...

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Oct 27, 2019

Change the Song

What do we do? We change the song. We listen to a different beat. New words. We shift perspective. When I write, I pick a song, put it on...

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Aug 11, 2019

Art Matters

The café I’m writing in is playing Johnny Cash’s masterful cover of Trent Reznor’s classic song, “Hurt.” It reminds me of an Oxford Goth...

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Jun 24, 2019

Make Magic, Create Beauty

As a person who has created art of some sort since childhood, and through many life changes, full time work, chronic illness, moving,...

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May 25, 2017

After the Coast

I spent last week in a rented beach house with four other writers. We ate, wrote, wrote, went for walks, wrote, ate, wrote, and slept. It...

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Apr 28, 2017

Stoking the Fires of Creativity in Times of Doom: Life in Empire

– Tananarive Due Baby steps are hard. But they are deeply important to take. A friend asked recently if I was feeling extra anxiety...

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Mar 28, 2010

The Woman and the Wasp

Two days later, it became clear as I peered into the slim crevasse: beneath her careful ministrations, creation was occurring. This wasp...

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T. Thorn Coyle