This hangs by my desk and always makes me smile.

From the New Yorker — this perfectly mirrors how I’m feeling on this beautiful day in paradise:

Spent yesterday nursing a headache and napping after an intense work week at the Seminar and
workshops. Today, surveys and literary thank you’s!

Wow. I’m putting together a new workshop and digging deep into my files and found this from TWENTY YEARS AGO

Lovely author talk from Safiya Sinclair in Key West. Packed audience, great questions. Her memoir, How to Say Babylon, is a fascinating read, written with heart.

We had an event for 100 people tonight where for an awkward ten minutes I had to pretend to be texting because I had nowhere to sit and everyone was eating and I was on my lonesome but at least this was my view

Happiness is Yoga with my girls

This is what happens in Florida in a slightly chilly holiday morning when you love a Boston man who hates the cold

My little office is pretty sweet

I was juuuuuust about to unsubscribe from the Marginalian, which I ADORE but (like subscribing to and never reading the New Yorker), always makes me feel vaguely guilty, when I saw the book guide and found a present for my father:

Christmas in a hot climate + being frugal = ugly little Xmas tree with 3 strings of lights, two of which don’t work and can’t be removed … but the spirit is there

I run a writing scholarship and workshop program at a small nonprofit in Key West. It is so gratifying. The most famous authors are invariably the nicest. The newest are the most demanding. And all the award winners are fab. Picture of hometown parade just for fun.

I'm doing this crazy restoration project in the Catskills. A Japanese Palace built for the 1904 world fair -- almost derelict, now being saved. I am so excited to one day invite writers and artists here to create!
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