What a joy it was to speak with @hannahbae.bsky.social about publishing (@wtawpress.bsky.social ) How We Know Our Time Travelers by @anitafelicelli.bsky.social for the @sfchronicle.com. The feature is wonderful!

Lion and Angel Dividing the Maple Between Them, Jane Hirshfield. Poem for my father today. For my family. Everywhere

My relevant rereading and reading material today.

Place is everything, arguably, in memoir. I’ve been feeling stuck in my WIP since my mother died 2021. My last remaining aunt got in touch after decades. She and my mother were estranged. She’s filling me in on mysteries: my mother, grandmother, where I was born. It’s everything.

I came across this, 14 years later. 💔 Obviously am not in Paradise.  But if two opportunities (?) were presented, then, isn’t it possible that there could be more even now? 

Spotted in a parking lot! OG WTAW Press sticker!!!

A poem I’ve always loved. makes me think of my dad. The Handyman’s Son by Gary Hawkins from his book WORKER.

Lately I’ve been so drained that I’m not writing first thing in the morning. Instead, pulling a card. Today, another uncanny and uncomfortable one.

Thanks for sharing! Very happy we can do this!

A great treat to find @lesliepwriter.bsky.social s interview in The Creative Independent today. This newsletter is one of the few I can truly claim to read nearly always.