At this point, 95% of the Rana sierrae have died off. To their credit, a couple of the scientists I contacted the other night about He...

There was a good turnout for the 5th Friday event at Comma Coffee in Carson City. The evening included dance, drama, poetry, weird fi...

I was in Carson City twice in the last couple of days running errands and naturally brought my camera with me so it ended up being a pho...

It's not that I haven't published before. It's just that it's been a long time. Why I stopped is a bit complicated and not a...

Whew! It's over. The Juniper Creek conference was wonderful, but it was a lot of intensity crammed into one tiny little weekend. It...

We're mid-way through the writer's conference. Last night Christian Wiman, editor of Poetry Magazine , gave a nice keynote address...

The Nevada Arts Council met today to select the winners for this year's fellowship grants. I didn't even make it past the first cu...

Brewery Arts Center, home of Ash Canyon Poets The writer's workshop went very well today. We decided we have to do it again soon. Krista...

I've spent the last couple of days at the Reno Hilton. Lee's mom was in town and got us a room there so we could visit more easily....

What's the most important thing for a writer? Gary Short had a two word answer for that question recently. A deadline . That's ce...

I applied for a Nevada Arts Council Fellowship this year. The council awards $5000 to six individual artists – two in literary arts, two in...

Okay, I just uploaded the website for Ash Canyon . It's not done but check it out anyway. Cowee loves it. He thinks I'm some kind of...

I've got a ton of things to do but here I sit, fiddling around with flickr and blogging about what I should be doing instead of doing it...

The second annual Juniper Creek Writer's Conference scheduled for the weekend of July 15th is going to be terrific. So far, thanks to t...

An American director who had, along with his troupe (his two wives), nearly starved to death in Mexico told me once that you can claim to ha...

After Hours We're reading at Borders tonight (Ash Canyon Poets) and I'm at it again, doing a fourth version of my poetry zine,...

That's the name of the zine I'm taking to the writer's conference this weekend. I'm putting it together right now. Well, I...

I just got back from the valentine's day poetry reading at the Comma Cafe . We all read a couple of our own poems and one by a well kno...

A few weeks ago Bill Cowee (Ash Canyon Poets), mentioned to me that Comma Coffee where we did the Readable Theatre last month, wanted a po...