Well, we finally made it to Tucson. After a 35 hour flight, including 27 hours at the very lovely Salt Lake City airport (sarcastic coughs here), we straggled in, me with two suitcases and my partner lugging two guitars, an amplifier and two big backpacks. It was a trying trip, to say the least, and… Read More Poetry proofs, and hello to the desert
Well, I took a small vacation from social media. I didn’t blog, or read blogs. I didn’t post on Facebook. I didn’t post on Twitter. And you know what? The sun still came up every morning (well, here in Alaska the sun comes up very, very late in the morning). The sun still set each… Read More My little vacation from social media
OMG, I am in love. I have a big-time crush. I am in writerly, crushed love with writer and poet Lisa Summe. I discovered Lisa while researching poetry publications. I was browsing the past winners of Smartish Pace’s Erskine J. Prize when I came across Summe’s Morning After We Hook Up, and I was floored. I… Read More What I’m reading and my new writing crush
It’s winter up here in Alaska and that means a little bit of daylight and a whole lot of darkness. But oh, the beauty of the twilight, of the blue and gray and silver shadows merging and blending. I just cannot get enough of them. Enjoy!
When I heard that a friend from my writing group had died, I decided to write a tribute for The Anchorage Press, where she had published a few of her lovely essays. What resulted, however, was more of a creative nonfiction piece that was just as much about me than it was about her. I think… Read More Essay tribute up at Anchorage Press
I can’t believe that I missed this. My poem “Paperdolls” ran in the September issue of Clementine Unbound and I mistakenly thought it was going to be in the November issue. A big and clumsy oops to me. (Maybe I need to start actually reading my email, eh?) Here are the first two sections, as teasers:… Read More New work up at Clementine Unbound
Earlier this summer, a wildfire destroyed part of the Turnagain Arm Trail, which is located right outside of Anchorage and is one of my favorite running spots. It’s a gnarly trail, with lots of steep hills, tree roots and iffy footing, and there are bears in the area, both brown and black bears, though luckily… Read More After the fire
How do people do it, how do they write and blog without losing their focus? I can happily blog away when I’m not writing or when writing shorter pieces: poetry, essays or short stories (though I have to admit that I so seldom write short stories, mostly because I so seldom read short stories, mostly because… Read More Writing and blogging (and mountain pics, too)
Well, damn it, the Rio Olympics are really cutting into my blogging time. I stayed up most of the night Saturday obsessing about writing and then, right as I was ready to stagger off to bed, realized that the women’s marathon was on in just two hours. So naturally I stayed up for it. How… Read More It’s Monday, I think
Well, we finally did it. We bought a recliner. It arrived, as so many things do, in a plain and rather large brown box. All day it sat in the sun in our yard guarded by the ever-so-fierce Seriously and her teddy bear. My partner and I tried to carry The Chair into the house… Read More My new reading chair
Cinthia Ritchie 