This weekend was Open Studios in North Adams. Hundreds of artists, writers, and craftspeople invited us in to see their work and process. There are a few huge, converted warehouses here, so almost everyone can live and work in their own same gorgeous, open space. It was an inspiration.
Papermaking artist Cynthia Lewis had some of [...]

I signed up for what I thought was a short fiction workshop at a local reading/writing nonprofit. And I guess it is a short fiction class, sort of, but the first class was concerned with poetry, prose poems, and intellectual arguments along those lines. My assignment this week is to write a poem. (And a [...]

It’s a good thing we got out when we did, because summer appears to be officially over. Outside, gray clouds hang low, the distant hills are misty, and the roads have become shiny black reflections of the orange and red trees above them.

I do love autumn, and the good of what comes along with it: [...]

Leaf-peeping season is in full swing here in the Berkshires, despite near-record scorching heat (it was in the 80s today). In this kind of environment, the chore of driving forty minutes to the market becomes a real pleasure.
Now, which of you city dwellers wants to come visit? We have an air mattress just crooning your [...]

I don’t write too much about my work here on the blog — Dooce taught us all a lesson about that — but every once in a while I may share a new project, especially now that I’m a free agent, unconnected to large corporations and the expenses-paid launch parties that they throw.

Anyway, a project [...]