As I write this my daughter has not seen or heard from her best friend in three months. If you've ever been around tween age girls you know this is a life time. There are many tears. Many, many tears. Sunshine did not move away. Nor is she mad at my daughter. I miss her …
Los Angeles Readings and What Not
I have not lived in the town of my birth consistently since perhaps six months in 2002. Nevertheless, it calls me home in some sort of a reverse Persephone myth (my mother alas lives in the mountains near me).
And as I’m headed to the home land I realize it really is also the home to so much of my work.
On June 15th I’ll be reading here with many people I have not met. I’ll be reading a weird bizarre-esque story that seems appropriate for the evening and I finally get to meet Laura Lee Bahr in person! At King Harbor Brewing Co. In Redondo Beach at 7 pm.
On June 24th I’ll be reading with one of my favorite Los Angeles poets V. Kali! I LOVE HER WORK! And she has a full collection out at the moment. I’m kind of an out of print girl at the…
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Save It for the Car–Up at Hip Mama Magazine
I read my essay Save it for the Car at the Listen to Your Mother Show last weekend. Thank you, Hip Mama for giving it such a prompt and loving home.
Listen to Your Mother…The Start of it All
Ah Listen to Your Mother Plumas County goes up on May 20. I think I have something to say about all this. So those that were going along trying to have a career and suddenly became mothers and then began a somewhat different trajectory than anticipated might relate to me when I say that in 2002 …
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Rabble Lit & Happy May Day
When I first heard of the concept of this journal I was all in immediately. It's something my work has always had to struggle with. Where do you fit as a literary writer when you're kind of punk ass at the same time? Can you be academic when you're throwing out references to children's literature? …
Be Kind to the Gay Kids, Please
I wrote this piece as my alter ego Maggie Wells a couple of weeks ago for my local paper job. It's called Ten percent. It's inspired by real life events that have been unfolding. One of my favorite teens up here came out (or rather it seems was forced out) of the closet. I think you know …
Small Town Big March for Science
When you live in a county which is primarily national forest , where the government employs most of the people like ours you can expect that people might have something to say about budget cuts and anti-science agenda. Despite this being opening day for Little League (and you know things done with balls always rule …
Library Update
Well there's good news and bad news on the library front. I'm not too worried about it and I think we will al persevere just fine. Indian Valley Academy and Greenville High School and the districts that run them have decided to dissolve their partnership. My editor did a brief editorial on it: Schools head toward divorce. …
Our Lady of the Robots…
Behold. The boy child has done it. He some how managed to combine his love of robots and a Mexican-American family (us) 's obsession with Our Lady of Guadalupe. May I present to you Our Lady of the Robot by Diego Garcia-Couoh. He made six of these and he's selling them to raise money for …
Reading in Quincy on Monday April 3rd (with a poet laureate no less)
Dana Gioia is reading at Quincy Library on April 3 and I'll be reading with him as well. I've never met the poet laureate of California. He vowed to visit all counties and this is Plumas County's turn at the start of national poetry month. Now what to read...come out if you are in Plumas County!
