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Bob Tanabe, Gloria Lee, Petrea Burchard, Catherine Yesayan, and Elaine La Marr at the Flintridge Bookstore & Coffeeshop. The Stor...

I signed up for the bluefeet newsletter because I like it and I learn from it. Bluefeet was founded by Lilli Cloud "to help people a...

"Pearls Before Swine" is by Stephan Pastis So she enters the room, and—no. No so. And this should be past tense so she entere...

Well, hello there. I haven't seen you in a while. I have excuses reasons. I'm working on the final production for Act As If: S...

A friend gave me a copy of a university-published "literary magazine." It's all short stories and poems. I've been readi...

UPDATE:  John and Tara report strong response to Script Kitchen, so they'll open a Sunday class soon. Date and time TBA. Quest...

When I was a kid at 4H camp, the counselors used to sing a song at lunch in the lodge: "Announcements, announcements, announcements! ...

I'm reading an excellent book by Ann Patchett called State of Wonder in which a doctor from Minnesota takes a trip (for which she is u...

Today is release day! You can now buy a brand spankin' new copy of the brand spankin' new novel, The Goddess Lounge ( paperback here...

Who remembers the Coffee Shop Quest ? Anybody? Awhile back I was on a quest to find my ideal coffee shop. I wanted a place where the musi...

I took a brain vacation yesterday. I couldn't make the thing work anyway, so I didn't have much choice. Usually I work at my desk....

Sometimes you have a hundred ideas and no luxury to write them all down. Sometimes an idea for a story is a long time in coming. Somet...

For the third month in a row, I'm happy to present a guest post by a local writer. Today, meet Amy Ratcliffe. I love her story. She want...

We've had cool weather for a few days and the sky is clear. I took this shot from about a mile and a half up the Sam Merrill trail, look...

I was at Vroman's last night, obviously. I might not have gone had my brother not asked me to get a book signed for him. He likes this ...

Susan Stroh is one of those people who asks about you first. To start a conversation she says something nice about you--not your outfit, y...

Sometimes I think I struggle. And it's true, I do. All humans have struggles. But our struggles are relative. So after a long working da...

Someone who came before us attached a birdhouse to a post supporting the roof over our back porch. This photo is oddly framed because Ms. Mo...

Do you believe it? I was actually out again last night. After dark and everything. John and I went to Vroman's to celebrate the debut o...

At the top of the steps, a supporting post of the arcade bore four plaques commemorating officers killed in the line of duty since the city...