A winter bird

  • Post category:PeopleWriting
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There's a new entry on Lumisilla mailla, the blog I write with my friend Susanna. I'm really enjoying making this blog with her. It feels like the cardboard "mailboxes" my childhood best friend and I kept on our front porches, and we'd write notes to each other and run across…

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Experience points.

  • Post category:Writing
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My Humber writing mentorship is over, and it's hard to talk about what I've learned since May. It's hard to talk about writing development without sounding foolish. What can I say that doesn't sound obvious, over-simple? And maybe a little boring? In fact, I rarely talk about it at all,…

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(I live) by the river.

  • Post category:PeoplePlaces
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My oldest friend is visiting home, and we spend the afternoon discovering new pathways in the park, discovering washed-up bones and watching people fish in the river. We follow that river and find a spot to sit, and we sit talking for a very long time, as we tend to…

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