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September 25, 2016

Harbor Springs Festival of the Book, 2016

Harbor Springs Festival of the Book, October 1, 2016 3:00 p.m. Featuring: Made in Michigan Authors Anne-Marie Oomen, Thomas Lynch, Mardi Link, Zilka Joseph, Michael Delp.  

September 2, 2016

New Board for the SUP Boomer

I bought a new SUP (stand up paddle board) and made an utterly unexpected choice, C4 Waterman munoz, 12" 6'. Wow.

March 10, 2016

Early Morning Vote

We voted early in the morning at our township hall in the village of Empire, and met, guess who?

January 19, 2016

Diary of a New Play, Day 3

Dawn in Chicago. Warmer today.  Snowing, but a little warmer—not that I’m going outside. I open the script.  I stare at the page.  I take some notes.  I tinker with the preliminary information but I’m really thinking about the guy who will play the expert.  Last night, Beth told me about him. Tucker. I looked him up.  Creds.  Just makes me more scared.  I stare at the page.  I read

January 16, 2016

Diary of a Play, Day 2

Diary of a play, Day 2, still taking notes, asking myself and my artistic consultant ridiculous questions. How do I make art of an out-of-control metaphor.

January 16, 2016

Diary of a New Play, Day 1

A Diary of a New Play: writer and playwright Anne-Marie Oomen's experience of struggling with revision of a play that she wants to succeed but that she is afraid of.

December 21, 2015

Inside the Dark: A Solstice post

I suspect I live mostly in Apollonian light, so I need to feel the dark, not for its violence, but for mystery, the emptiness before imagination.

August 10, 2015

On Mardi Link’s Drummond Girls: A Personal Review

Little has been written, from inside or outside, about groups of women friends. It’s an observation that has cropped up repeatedly in the reviews of Mardi Link’s rich memoir, Drummond Girls, a memoir that describes a twenty-year friendship among eight women, the self-named Drummond Girls who make pilgrimage once a year to Drummond Island, a remote island off the east coast of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, in chilly Lake

March 8, 2015

Stalking the Writer’s Life: Celebrating “Readings”

Now I suspect good readings combine the receptivity of the listener with the intention of the writer—that match up. A particular voice at a particular time. So maybe the question is: for which readings has my receptivity met a writer’s intentions in a transformative moment?