Spent sometime recording a new version of my old poem “Refugees” (commonly known as “Jazz Refugees”). When I wrote it years ago I wanted to have some friends add backing music to it, but it never materialized. While I’ve performed it with a improvisational jazz band on a few occasions at open mic nights, I’ve [...]

Just finished (3:30 a.m.) the first draft of Auggie’s Wedding, a short story for my good friend Kimmy’s wedding this next Sunday (in which I’ll be serving as Kimmy’s best man). I’d been writing on this for the past couple of days, then today I went for a walk to think about a brick wall [...]

So, over a week ago I decided to get things started off on this new blog with the “Coming now” post. At that time I promised to talk more about what was going on, and then promptly got so into “The Work” that I didn’t get to it until now. Although since no one is [...]

As part of the Literary Arts’ Oregon Literary Fellowship application, I had to answer the question: “Describe the main concerns of your work, or something about your process or intent”.
I doubt any writer (or artist for that matter) likes these kinds of questions, because no one wants to be pigeon-holed (and it diverts you’re [...]