At Third Place Books this afternoon. Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets caught my eye, resulting in this: Continue reading

A short while ago, I overheard an author saying that kids ‘don’t have those inner critical voices’, that they don’t compare their drawings to others and judge themselves. Not so, say I… Continue reading

A longer poem slashed down to its core—which happened to be its final stanza: Continue reading

While I was at Third Place Books this afternoon, a teenage girl asked me if she could take a couple of pictures of me for a class assignment.  Continue reading