Celebrate Push the Envelope Day!

This evening, my dear friend and extraordinarily fashionable gal Suki is meeting me and my beau Ian at the Jean Paul Gaultier exhibit for our very own Push the Envelope celebration. We're all going to wear something that makes us feel fun and fabulous — but something we wouldn't...

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Saved by a poem.

I'm reading a book, Saved by a Poem, by Kim Rosen. Kim teaches a practice of learning poems "by heart." (No, not memorizing! It's all about connection.) As it turns out, what's also been going on for me this week is an extra scoop of Monkey Mind ice-cream doled out daily. The...

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Everyone knows.

Last week I reprinted a piece from Jean Reinhold, a fellow groupie in the Type Rider Google group. Today I want to share with you my own freewrite on the prompt, "Everyone knows..." Everyone knows they are going to die, but no one believes it. Everyone knows that bare feet on warm grass...

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