Apr 1, 2019
Prompt: "For as long as I can remember, I had known the phrase, 'Don’t get your hopes up . . . '"
"For as long as I can remember, I had known the phrase, 'Don’t get your hopes up,' my mother had said it habitually about even the...
Mar 1, 2019
Eggs Benedict
Last night I had this really weird dream because I’m doing intermittent fasting and in my dream I forgot I was fasting and started eating...
Jan 1, 2019
On my gratitude list: Truong & Ross
I’m in my second semester of the MFA program at SFSU and taking a poetry class with a totally awesome professor, Truong Tran, (buy his...
Dec 1, 2018
What we do for love (and casserole)
When my kids were little I started going to MOPS because I was so lonely and lost. Some of those ladies were a little hyper-religious but...
Nov 1, 2018
The Falls
We read this George Saunders story in class last week and I had to share because it's so good: The Falls
Oct 26, 2018
What is the truth or the lie that keeps you from getting what you want?
I was working on this story about relationships in one of my writing workshops and my professor recommended trying to show the...
Oct 14, 2018
Write to this Prompt: Happiest Childhood Memory or Saddest Childhood Memory
These are weird topics to write about since all of my childhood memories seem like I was in a seventeen-year blackout and only flashes of...
Oct 12, 2018
Forty-Five
Forty-five has such different meanings these days. Tomorrow is my 46th birthday so I won't be 45 for much longer. Now, I can’t round down...
Aug 17, 2018
Prompt: “Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you, and sometimes when you fall, you fly."
I like that quote from Neil Gaiman. We wrote to it during my writing group and I came up with this weird response: I found out today a...
Aug 1, 2018
Las Vegas
I went to Las Vegas and everything was cool but still felt kind of weird. I liked all of the art and excess and crazily clad showgirls...
