Hilda Raz, Bosque Press Poetry Editor, and I are leading a two day retreat, Digging Deeper, Then Flowering, Saturday, January 11, 2020, and Saturday, February 22, 2020 (the retreat is fully subscribed).
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“Your Story, Your Audience”—Southwest Writers Memoir Conference
June 17, 2017, at 3 pm I will be speaking at the Southwest Writers Memoir Conference on “Your Story and Your Audience” at New Life Presbyterian Conference Room, 5540 Eubank NE, Albuquerque, NM 87111.
“Writing Your Way In”—The Importance of Beginnings
May 6, 2017, Lynn delivered a talk for Southwest Writers in Albuquerque, “Writing Your Way In” about the importance and function of beginnings. Watch the talk here.
Other Married People
a short story excerpt
“It’s not too late,” Jack told me as we were leaving the church where we were supposed to get married. But didn’t. Because he’d had an anxiety attack five minutes after the organist began playing. I told my mother not to hire an organist. “They’re gloomy,” I said. “It’s too Phantom of the Opera. Jeez, why not a string quartet?”
My mother flipped her hand back and forth in the “whatever” way she had. So infuriating. “Your father and I had an organ playing the wedding procession at our wedding. What’s wrong with a little tradition?”
Why had I given in to her? Because arguing with her is like being on a bicycle with a monster SUV bearing down on you, that’s why. You’re not going to win and you’ll get bloodied and lame in the process.
—from a story collection, Fractures, in progress