March On

It’s a challenge to balance the art of writing/drawing with the sharing of it. Creation versus promotion. I think I’m not alone in this effort to strike a harmonious accord between these two aspects of an artist/writer’s life. A few weeks back, I sat down to write about upcoming...

Three 2018 Essays + Some Awesome 2019 Reads

My sabbatical officially starts tomorrow and I’m trying to prepare by organizing my physical and digital spaces. I try to keep up with my website updates, but I’m organizationally challenged, so in tidying up, I realized I forgot to link three essays that were published in 2018. It’s no...

Water Marks, Plankton Press’s First Chapbook!

Plankton Press began what I hope will be a long and tiny tenure in chapbook publishing with the release of Water Marks, word and images reflecting on wet (December 2018). The plan is begin to publish the art/words of other people, but I have been guinea-pigging the publishing process...

It’s December Already?

This morning, I slept past six a.m. and now I need to do about a million loads of laundry. My ears are ringing in this quiet house. Today is the kind of day that makes people become snow birds and fly off to the desert where I live. An...

Reading and Tabling

The reading at Changing Hands Bookstore last week was awesome! I meant to post these pictures right away, but the week just zipped away. This Saturday morning, I’ll be tabling at Meet Your Literary Community at Phoenix Public Market. I’m reading in a big reading marathon (I go on...

Love for the Graphic/Literary Arts Community

I just want to give a shout out the graphic/literary arts community that so enriches my writing/drawing life. I’m a shy quiet person by nature and spend a lot of my time alone, but somehow (not somehow, through words and drawings) I’ve managed to connect to a crazy number...

Book Turns One (Month) Old!

The flurry leading up to the book launches in Phoenix and Berkeley has subsided. I’ve spent the past month doing interviews, knitting and cleaning up the mess the house had become while I was busy with the By the Forces of Gravity. Not that I do much house work....

Berkeley Book Launch at Maybeck High School!

It was such a wonderful experience to return to my alma mater (class of 1979 and also where I started my teaching career at 19!) to read from my new book, By the Forces of Gravity. A total joy to see so many familiar faces, and meet new ones!...

Launch Afterglow

The Phoenix launch at The Hive, co-hosted by Wasted Ink Zine Distro and Books by Hippocampus (my publisher) was such a delight. Here are a few pictures from the event. On June 19, By the Forces of Gravity’s official birthday, I went to my favorite indie bookstore, Changing Hands,...

Prepare to Launch!

It feels magically real that tomorrow boxes of books will arrive in the mail, then on Saturday people will gather at The Hive (yay Wasted Ink Zine Distro and Charissa Lucille for co-hosting with my publisher Books by Hippocampus and the amazing Donna Talarico-Beerman!)  to help me celebrate the...