Quick blog post before I run out the door to AWP with Tameme : Just finalized the line-up for the travel writing panel at the Washington Ind...

Later this week is the Associated Writing Programs' annual conference --- this year in Atlanta, Georgia. Tameme will be there in the boo...

Just back from Jim and Judy Tolbert's splendid second annual all-day Baja Book Event --- readings (I read my translation of Araceli Ardo...

A few months ago when I started reading Judith Cornell's Mandala, I realized, aha, the novel is a mandala. I'm intrigued that Vikr...

Just got the good news today: the paperback edition of my book, Miraculous Air (Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California the Ot...

The novel. .. drafting the penultimate chapter... Maximilian goes to Orizaba and the question is, To go or not to go? To abdicate or not t...

My Mexico City amiga Maria O. urged me to read Karen Armstrong's The Spiral Staircase. I found this memoir so extraordinary, so lucidl...

Los Cabos painter Diane Varney's " Baja Desert Garden Blog " is back--- check out her amazing backyard. (Bummer about that bu...

From Dinty W. "living between panic & desire" Moore : "The Spring 2007 Global Warming issue of BREVITY , the journal of c...

Long live the Writers Center! Last weekend was the Writers Center's 30th Anniversary. Robert Olen Butler read his imagined missing 18 ...