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How do you know you’re a writer? If you wrote today, you’re a writer.

  • Bob Dylan revisited

    Don’t know if it’s the February sky — low and drizzly — but Bob Dylan’s “Oh Mercy” (1989) and “Love and Theft” (2001) drew me in recently. I’m struck by how precise and yet how loosey- goosey Dylan’s lyrics feel. “What Good am I?” from “Oh Mercy” captures in such simple language and tones how…

  • Close observation

    Last week, a Townsend’s warbler showed up at our backyard bird feeder. The picture of this little guy comes from the All About Bird’s website, Cornell University’s ornithology lab, which is an excellent site for birding info. The Townsend’s warbler is a West Coast species, a bird about the size of a chickadee, and it…

  • So not writing

    Real-world making brings some kind of benefit to a writer. Using actual materials with actual tools provides a different creative boost. So I tell myself. Maybe it’s just writing avoidance. Anyway. The barrel chair. When I bought it more than a decade ago, I thought it was a leather chair. But it was something they…