I’m a Magpie
“Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.”
Steve Martin, from “Born Standing Up”
I’ve decided that I should myself as I would a wayward child: discipline, structure, and a generous application of dessert treats as rewards. Writing (for the fun of it, to remind myself it *is* fun) every day for at least a half an hour upon waking, enforced hygiene (brush your hair one hundred strokes and [...]
Menelaus and Helen
IHot through Troy’s ruin Menelaus broke To Priam’s palace, sword in hand, to sate On that adulterous [...]
So, I’m reading tonight at the Bazaar Cafe on California St. here in San Francisco, between 21st and 22nd streets. The reading starts around 7:30ish. Ish because I’m coming from work, and god knows how I’ll get there on time.
Check out the latest issue of Five Fingers Review! That’s my piece on the cover:
And you’ll have to buy a copy to see the rest, as my blogger layout goes all screwy when I try and put them in (or if you’re really cheap, go to my flickr page. Cheapo). Anyway, it’s a collage based [...]
The Age of the Earth:
First there was the void. And from the void were born the primal things: the earth and the pit below the earth, and gloom to fill the pit, and love (also known as desire), and night.
Night was the world’s first mother. She lay with Gloom and gave birth to Day.
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I'm a freelance writer and perpetual graduate student living in San Francisco. Special skills include dog charming, brochure writing, slapdash cooking and long-winded nattering. I also enjoy watching the sunset reflected in the tall buildings downtown.
For a while there, I taught classes on Classical literature, philosophy, and the history of religion at New College of California. I have an MA and an MFA in Writing, and started library school in the fall of 2009.