Perhaps, like me, you read a lot. Maybe this started, as it did for me, when you were very young. Maybe you’re just falling into the world of books this week. No matter. You’re here and we’re now officially kindred spirits in this magic-revealing, soul-awakening, joy-sustaining meandering that is a life in love with reading.

For me, and perhaps for you, reading is twinned with a love writing. The act of putting words together feels like a reweaving of all that got entangled in agitating, distorting knots throughout my life. Reading the words of others provides a similar kind of de-muddling as it opens doors to worlds I’d otherwise miss out on knowing.

In this part of the site I’ll share snippets and sections of projects I’m working on and also stand-alone bits of the stuff that appears in my mind almost every day and begs to be brought down to this plane by way of pen + paper.

Writing is a solitary practice bursting with visceral ties to feelings conjured in our hidden selves and in the lives we craft for our characters and landscapes. To breathe all the necessary possibility into a piece of writing—which is similar to or interconnected with the process of pulling potential from ourselves—requires, or at least deeply benefits from, the generative kinship of sharing community with other folks in the journey of fitting words—and lives—together in ways that belie all apparent limitations.

I will share, on the coming Offerings page, ongoing ways to commune (in real life and virtually) as well as invitations to share your writing here as another (or initial) way to reach into the lives of anyone who might find solace, instruction, validation, or delight in what you’re saying.

Stay tuned and stay in touch…

“The truth of a person, under all the layers and guises, the significations of group and type, the quiet truth, underneath the noise of opinions and ‘beliefs,’ is a substance that is pure and stubborn and consistent. It is a hard, white salt. This salt is the core. The four a.m. reality of being….comes from the deepest part. Human salt is everlasting. Mine it, use it, and it will not deplete.”

from Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner