Play On Words is producing a summer show! We're accepting submissions through June 30--find details here.
#doodles for June
We did it: We launched Play On Words at Cafe Stritch. We celebrated birthdays. We biked in the rain.
Take Flight
I'm thrilled to announce that my short story, "Exposure," was a finalist in the 2015 Reynolds Fiction Prize, awarded by the Center for Women Writers. Congratulations to all involved!
In other news, tomorrow night is Play On Words: Take Flight at San Jose's Cafe Stritch. I'm so unbelievably excited. This production represents more than six months of dedicated work--soliciting submissions, collaborating with artists and performers, networking with San Jose businesses. Tomorrow will be our biggest, boldest show yet, showcasing the work of 13 Bay Area writers. We even got a mention in the San Jose Mercury News! On my birthday, no less. It has been a good week.
The pursuit of creativity is often as wonderful as any one "thing" we can create. And the beat goes on.
#doodles for #days
Birthday week...I'm the luckiest.
#doodles for gloom
I've been a little under the weather the week; perhaps because the weather itself is off, cloudy and gloomy. It is that insane time of year in which everything seems to culminate.
#doodles for stories
I saw our dear border collie Taj for the last time just a few days before we lost him--the same day, incidentally, I drove to Calistoga for four incredible days at LitCamp, where I met Pulitzer Prize winners and got to nerd out on fiction. Laurel graduated from her master's program in San Francisco. It has rained on us intermittently and the sky is one huge mood. May is always an insane time of year, the time of year that stories are planted. It's time for me to sow.
Oracle Fine Arts Review
I'm thrilled to share that a series of my 100-word stories have been published in the spring issue of Oracle Fine Arts Review, a wonderful journal published by the University of South Alabama, and edited by the force of nature that is Karie Fugett. (If you haven't yet, you really need to read "Needs a Miracle" in Hermeneutic Chaos Literary Journal. It's gorgeous.)
Cover art by Micah Mermilliod
Doodles from Keystone to Palm Springs
In two weeks, I've been from the Colorado snow to the Palm Desert. I've worn cowboy boots and biked with saddlebags. The clip of life does not slow down, and sometimes that's a good thing.
#doodles from the observatory downward
Got lost on campus. Ran a 5k in Santa Cruz. Contemplated Shabbat. And, finally, announced Play On Words' new partnership with Cafe Stritch! Can't wait to promote our next show.
#dibujo para Espana!
That's not a filter you're seeing: it's the lovely summer haze of Europe--waiting for us on the horizon.
#doodles for bikes and plants
The rainclouds are rare and beautiful. I hope they stay awhile.
#doodleaday: for the birds
The weirdest thing about working in a corporate office park is waiting for things to get torn down and rebuilt. We work in a liminal space. At least the birds will be okay.
#doodles: on flowers and buckets
NPR Live in Concert, I love you.
Current jam: "Carousel Ride," by Rubblebucket.
spring #doodles
Doodle themes include: jumpsuits (again), construction (still), Seattle, Adirondack chairs.
#doodles for swans and trees
The building where I work is surrounded in a sea of construction, which makes the bike ride to work a little more challenging. From my bicycle I can see the way these changes affect the local wildlife.
From bicycles to [St. Paul and the] broken bones, a week in #doodles
Today is the first day of spring. As of this week, we have some exciting new developments in the world of Play On Words. That, and I'm finally well enough to bike to work again, which makes my whole body sing.
#doodleaday: for Duddy
When a car reaches 100,000 miles, don't you expect confetti to pop out of its tires?
doodles which test my ability to draw
Eight weeks in to my doodle experiment, I realized I don't really know how to draw.
Sorry, Dad. I'll try again.
#doodleaday: nerf launch
Totally not intended as a phallic symbol, and yet:
#doodleaday: The power of Kleenex
Today's doodle: Kleenex vs. the forces of gravity. That, and I just realized today would have been my grandmother Alice's 89th birthday.