#666: D is for Deep Sea Diver

My friend Eric asked meif I wanted to go with himto see Deep Sea Diver, and, having never heard the band, of course, I said yes. In preparation, I downloadedthe most current thing, the2016 album called Secrets. Led by songwriter, singer, and guitarplayer extraordinaire, Jessica Dobson, the band absolutely rocked, and from that momentforward, IContinue reading “#666: D is for Deep Sea Diver”

Writing in a Zoom Room with Friends

If there is anything I miss about teaching during the pandemic school shutdown, it’s sitting virtually with a group of human beings I care about, in absolute silence, and in the comfort of my home, while every student in the Zoom Room writes. A silent classroom, no doubt, is better, because not only could youContinue reading “Writing in a Zoom Room with Friends”

The Book I Read: Choices! More Books of the Dead! Climbing the Mountain! and the Freakout Commencement

For this entry in The Book I Read series (which is also a podcast, by the way), I am writing about, not what I’ve read, but what I’ve started to read, AND, what I’ve tried reading and then abandoned. I had these ideas that I might get well into one of those things, or wellContinue reading “The Book I Read: Choices! More Books of the Dead! Climbing the Mountain! and the Freakout Commencement”