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Writing with others, across the cloud

It would be really cool if _ and _, joined me for this round, for August’s ‘Papers.’ But I won’t bother them. I’m busy with my own things anyway, and […]

Protected: End of the Rainbow: Epilogue

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#86

I wrote about this week’s coming-up issue of S P A C E over at DK, and thought hard about what the idea of it is, why I wanted to […]

Protected: End of the Rainbow: Chapter 4

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Protected: End of the Rainbow: Chapter 3

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Protected: End of the Rainbow: Chapter 2.5

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Protected: End of the Rainbow: Chapter 2

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Protected: On quality, design, sharp focus, and editing

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Protected: End of the Rainbow: Chapter 1

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Protected: ‘Allow your emotions to flow’

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Protected: A corner of Ka Đô

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#82

One of the printer-friendly zines is published today, in S P A C E. It’s called ‘Phaerah.’ It’s the third in a series of zines set in Finnmark, a fictional […]

A work in progress

I remember on the road last year with Boss, in Vietnam, that we got a copy somehow of a short book by Hemingway called A Moveable Feast. Aside from the […]

Protected: ‘Only a person who risks is free’

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‘You always seem to land on your feet’

‘You always seem to land on your feet’.. Something I hear a lot, from people. Gotta be able to. Me, in reply… In my head of course.. Goes: Well, if […]

20 Years

It’s going to be 20 years, next year, since the events of my first book, The Elopement. Which, surprising everyone (especially me), got some actual press and accolades the very […]

‘Papers’ is a four-person international conversation, with depth and substance, in the cloud. We have 1 spot for July. Care to learn more ? Here’s a link.. https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/July-Papers–A2SxQSYgd~oTL8E28NgieDw9Ag-6s1wbh2NpCaUZlKwChrOv Stay safe. […]

A random encounter, part 9,999

Today I went for a little wander and wound up discovering the best place to sit and peoplewatch–that has aircon. Normally, I prefer outdoors, the sidewalks, the street life, but […]

Revisiting the poetry of 1999

I had a remarkable and extraordinary few weeks, just now, where I am, here in the spaces of writing and thinking, but mostly, experiencing. Offline. I have a lot of […]

Protected: Dear Millennial, Signed Gen X

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‘Virgo’

The lead story for this issue of S P C is called ‘Virgo.’ It’s part of a series of ‘zines’ for DK’s S P C that are specifically about Finland. […]

Protected: Plot

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Link | ‘The Definition of Lonely’ by Nellie Warren (Age 17)

Making my way around my usual news run, which includes a mashup from sources near, far, left, and middle, I found this story in the Irish Times. I really thought […]

Protected: Unslowly

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Protected: Writing ‘Finnmark’

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Serendipities

A new beginning. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/serendipities-registration-day-tickets-104810769834

#71

Issue #71 of our mini-mag, S P C, is called S P C | The 4th Dimension, ‘Papers.’ It’s part of a suite of materials we are sending out for […]

‘Slow Moment’ | Register to be included

12 prompts, sent daily, from 31 March. Use them for reflection, and connection, with other guests participating, too. About this Event TWELVE DAYS OF SLOW MOMENTS. Slow down. Share your […]

A new book | ‘Nostalgia Cà Phê’

This book is the result of half a dozen trips to Việt Nam, and the conversations that emerged when I was, or wasn’t, looking, and the composite feeling of being-there, […]

Protected: Was there an exchange of value?

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Flight of Pisces

It’s a big day for me, here. I’ve been rewriting. A lot… Because what it is is… developing. A work in progress is like that. You don’t want to talk […]

Step a Little Closer

The title of this book is inspired by a series of very improvised, on-the-spot conversations with probably the most creative person I have met in the last decade. (The reason […]

Drifting into Rīga

‘Why Latvia?’ Me: ‘There was the Eurovision contest. Latvia was in it and I got curious….* That’s why. That’s why I wanted to come over here.’ [stares] ‘…’ ‘What? Why […]

Briefly in Sheffield

This story began in 1999. I went to Sheffield to finish it, in 2015. But I didn’t really get finished until I met the kind of people who reminded me, […]

Kismuth Vol. I: Kanishka

THE FEELING is intriguing. Of seeing this project… completed. It took me thirty years, if I have to tell the truth, but somehow the sharing of this story through that […]