Come, sit with me in Reston or Georgetown
Just a reminder that I'll be reading from Life is a Verb this weekend in Reston, Virginia, and in Washington, D.C. I hope if you're in the area that you'll join me at one of these gatherings and bring along all your friends, that nice mail carrier who brings your …
Whoops! Cleveland reading canceled, but we must still eat!
Long story, but the book reading at Crooked River Reading Club has been cancelled (the bookstore went out of business–it's the first time I've had that impact!), so we are going to meet at 12:00noon on November 6th at Stir Crazy (in Legacy Village, Cleveland) to eat ourselves silly instead! …
Yes. We. Can.
"This victory alone is not the change we seek. It is the opportunity to make that change." – President-Elect Barack Obama, November 4, 2008. He will need our help. All of us, not just Democrats, not just African Americans, not just youth, but all of us. Hope cannot be bipartisan. …
Make a gesture of belief
Tomorrow I will be changed. Somehow in the next passage of light, I will shed reptilian skin and feel the wind's friction again. Sparks will fly. It's a hope for the right kind of fear, the kind that does not turn away. -Kim Stafford, Having Everything Right "What's that sticker?" …
Stand by me, all over the world.
I love this. Love, love, love it. My thanks to Gay for sending it to me. You will sing and dance long after the video ends, I promise. Music and rhythm connect us in ways almost nothing else does. Stand by me, darling.
This is the part where you’re supposed to save me.
I got an email from Jodi Cohen last night, the woman who invited me to come read from Life is a Verb in Madison, Wisconsin, in early October: "I wanted to write something deep and profound about how you cried during your reading in Madison. I didn't. Or I started …
No to 102, yes to love
It should come as no surprise to anyone who has read this blog for a while that I am fully in support of equal rights for the GLBTQ community, many of whom I consider among my closest, dearest friends, colleagues, and neighbors. Am I more fully human than they are? …
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 …
