This is what it is like for me on this Thursday morning sitting and waiting around–without coffee–for my 930am class: I have come to the idea that I my process is so completely erratic and unpredictable and I wonder if I can sustain a long narrative without forgetting beginning points and narrative threads. Here IContinue reading “An Idea on Process”
Category Archives: Process
Writing Mentors and the Passing Down of Failure
I first heard of failure as it relates to writing from my old writing teacher and mentor Will Hochman . And I don’t mean he failed me or told me I was a failure. No, he was tough on me but kind and nurtured his students from draft to draft. Never had composition with himContinue reading “Writing Mentors and the Passing Down of Failure”
Sundays and Allan Brothers Coffee
If you know anything about me, you know I love coffee. And I guess it didn’t begin in the Northwest or in Oregon sepcifically. Perhaps all those fishing trips as a young moco and all those thermoses of coffee got me. Or maybe the first expresso drinks I was introduced to at Colorado State andContinue reading “Sundays and Allan Brothers Coffee”