Run into the bamboo thicket in your jammies
What if it was your job to help everyone else succeed? – David Robinson Tess got a small package in the mail a few weeks ago. Its arrival alone (regardless of the content) was cause for some serious celebration in our house. In fact, mail is such a Big Deal …
Write in your margins, talk back to your life
Ah, Greensboro. Home of my college years. Site of a fantastic Life is a Verb event last Friday night. After two days of driving to points here and there in Georgia, I arrived back in NC, in Greensboro, just in time for a LIAV reading at the Barnes & Noble …
Inhabit your dream
I have a framed watercolor on one of the shelves in my office. I’ve had it for years, moving it from home to new home, from office to new office. It has a quote from the Spanish writer Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s La vida es sueño (Life is a …
Join me in Canton and Cleveland, Ohio!
Soon I’ll travel to Cleveland and Canton in Ohio for several Life is a Verb events – I hope to see you there!NOVEMBER 5th – CANTON4-7pmI’ll be reading and signing books at the 2nd April Galerie, 324 Cleveland Ave. NW, Canton, Ohio, thanks to the efforts of Jylene Henning, a …
Voice your hops and drems
Yesterday afternoon, five-year-old Tess begged to use my laptop. I understand the attraction, the tiny white keys flat and inviting, a world of blank screen to fill. I opened Word for her and walked away because she told me what she was writing was private. A little while later, I …
We are left with love
I love, LOVE this interview Sarah Morgan did with me. About fear and turning points and the meaning of life. Thanks, Sarah, for your great questions.
Book tour news–and an announcement
It’s no secret that I’m loving this book tour, designed, hosted, attended by you. What an incredible, insane pleasure to meet people who have been reading 37days for a week or for years, or artists who contributed the beauty that graces the pages of Life is a Verb, or people …
Walk straight into yes with your Bingo dauber and your seat warmer
What a week! A lifetime in just five days! In Madison, from boas to singing Shabbot to crying while reading "Say Hi to Yaron" in A Room of One’s Own Bookstore to vultures carrying caribou across the center line on Highway 94. And in Minneapolis (or Teeny-Tiny-Apolis, as Mr Brilliant …
