Archive - Ok, But How?

Oliver Burkeman and Confronting Our Limits

Apr 9 •

January 2024

New Year, What Are You Practicing?

Also, a new book contract, A live Vancouver event with Deb from Smitten Kitchen (!!!), and Broccoli Ricotta Pizza

Jan 23 •

December 2023

The First Rule of Avoidance Club Is You Say Why It's Hard

Plus a Poets' Solstice Zoom Reading (tonight!), Green Fingerless Gloves, Whole Cloth Reading Series in Vancouver, Ali Blythe's Stedfast, Rajiv Mohabir's…

Dec 21, 2023 •

July 2023

Do I Have Any Business Writing?

A Reader Question, Jessica Abel, Creation and Communication, Cooking, Knitting, Drawing, Carl Phillips, Adam Gopnik, Scrambled Egg Tacos

Jul 12, 2023 •

June 2023

Three Strategies for Resisting a Loud Inner Editor

Awkwardness and Fluency, Space for Chaos, Gradual Accumulation, Peter Elbow, Gregory Orr, Carl Phillips, Coconut Maple Granola, and Bemidji, Minnesota

Jun 24, 2023 •

February 2023

Reading and Writing and Swimming and Crying

Long days and going deep, Tressie McMillan Cottom, Oliver Baez Bendorf, Katherine Rundell, Kate Beaton, Catherine Newman, and Cardamom Apricot Jam…

Feb 14, 2023 •

January 2023

Do You Need More Structure or More Space for Intuition? (Or Both?)

Mayonnaise tweets, space for strange aimless sidecars, Amer Latif, purpose, drop-in hours open to you (yes, you), bright winter salad, office salt.

Jan 11, 2023 •

October 2022

Sitting Past that Twitchy Feeling

Mindset shifts, actual hourglass sand, Lynda Barry, my early poetic LOTR fanfic, upcoming Conferences (Seattle! Toronto!), and a beautiful sea stew.

Oct 25, 2022 •

July 2022

Imitations, Iterations, Transformations

Also: Craft lessons from my daughter's drawings of witches, The Slowdown with Ada Limón, and Mini Butter Mochi

Jul 15, 2022 •

February 2022

I Have Lost to February

February Blues, Being a Beginner, Finding (or Making?) Your Voice, Craig Morgan Teicher, Johannes Göransson, Midwinter Constellation Reading Tonight…

Feb 17, 2022 •

November 2021

Caressing the Noun

Lucie Brock-Broido, Hoa Nguyen, Goldenrod, Maggie Smith, Diane Seuss, Gertrude Stein, a Giveaway, Midwinter Constellation, AWP 2022, and Brown-Butter…

Nov 10, 2021 •

October 2021

Milestones, Saskatoon Berries, Craft and Culture, Matthew Salesses, Zoom Book Launch, Call the Midwife, and yes, a recipe for Birthday Soup

Oct 7, 2021 •

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