by Minerva Rising Contributor | Jul 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
Every summer I go on a retreat with a group of writers. We met when we were students in a creative writing MFA program at Goddard College. Five of us travel from the edges of the country to meet on tiny Decatur Island, in the San Juan Islands, to talk shop and lend...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Jul 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
“There’s a disconnect between up here and down there,” my new acupuncturist said on our first date. “What is it about your body that you don’t want to hear?”She said this to me as she pointed first to my head and then to my achy bones. She said we have some work to...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Jun 27, 2013 | Uncategorized
When I was seventeen, I met a striking young woman named Victorine Meurent. She wore her hair tied back in a blue ribbon and an embroidered white blouse. She had eyes like brown beach glass and a bold gaze that held me without blinking as we stared each other down,...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Jun 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
“But I can’t write fiction,” I heard myself say a few nights back as I hoisted myself up to the rim of the hot tub. School had just let out for the summer, and soaking in the heat, I felt the grind of the year dissolving into the mist. To jumpstart...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Jun 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
The Council for the Arts in my hometown of Jacksonville, North Carolina is the place where I want to be, especially on a Sunday afternoon four times a year. That’s the time when poets congregate to share their works at an Open Mike Reading. When...
