Writing while not writing
I have a couple deadlines. School was supposed to start yesterday. I’m supposed to be writing, but I’m not. Or I’m writing while not writing.
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Upcoming events and recordings (including a real book club!)
Hi dears, I'm writing to share a few events of interest coming up: Today, April 30, 4pm Eastern/3pm Central. University of Texas at San Antonio's Urban Bird Project is hosting me for a ZOOM ONLY book talk. Thursday, May 7, 7-9pm Eastern: Forge Project is
On Writing (and Pausing)
About a year before Speculative Relations came out--while it was in production and I couldn't edit anything--I was in a rhythm writing "the next book". This next book is supposed to be a memoir. A memoir or perhaps what they call narrative non-fiction. By the time
An Indian Smiling II
Mary smiles. She's eating water crackers with her friends at the Sac and Fox boarding school near Stroud, Oklahoma. She smiles and they smile watching her smile. She smiles holding a "Takhoma Biscuit," one carton sits open, another sits underneath a pitcher of water or milk.
An Indian Smiling
I'm starting a new series called "NDN smiles". It's going to last four to six weeks and mostly rely on archival photographs such as this one that are housed in digital collections--here from the Newberry Library. I have been mulling this one over for