Frances
The Distinct Clack of CD cases
I grew up in a bookstore that also sold records and cds. Edit to add: I was (I think) 14 when Books, Strings & Things opened on the...
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Frances
- Jan 16
- 1 min
Novel progress
I spent a couple of days at Semiahmoo Resort over the holiday break writing, thinking about writing, organizing my novel, setting up a...
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Frances
- Jan 14
- 3 min
Our Bellingham Origin Story Starts Here
I met them at the Community of Writers in California. Summer of 1998, a strangely cool August. Leonid meteor shower just over Squaw Peak,...
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Frances
- Jan 11
- 1 min
Apricity
I have given up precious words of the year because, really, I don't remember my Word of the Year in July when I'm going through it. There...
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Frances
- Oct 31, 2021
- 1 min
Already stressed about nanowrimo
Still gonna do it. My novel began as a NaNoWriMo project, formed from an idea I conjured after crying a lot at work one day back in...
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Frances
- Oct 4, 2021
- 2 min
Everyone I miss
It's been a rough, rough two years. I lost my dad just before COVID crept over to the U.S. I lost my friend Michael shortly thereafter. I...
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Frances
- Sep 29, 2021
- 3 min
Watching Paint dry
I don't exactly know how or why it happened—I don't even know what day it was—but for reasons that are part mystery part pandemic brain,...
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Frances
- Jul 2, 2021
- 2 min
Movie Script Ending
Tim wasn't always the kindest, gentlest soul. He would be the first to admit that he was prickly, often misanthropic, frustrated by the...
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Frances
- May 10, 2021
- 1 min
Night of Rainbows
The light after the rainstorm was perfect—low and golden, lighting up the horizon and filling the sky with rainbows. Rainbows are...
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Frances
- Dec 15, 2020
- 1 min
Saying Goodbye to Nadine
She would want this to be hilarious, but there's just nothing funny about losing her. Our bright, brilliant Shouter...
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Frances
- Dec 2, 2020
- 1 min
Trampled
We're all feeling a bit worn down right now. But there's hope shining through the holes.
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Frances
- Nov 26, 2020
- 1 min
To thank, to be thanked
Gratitude journals are for the winsome and sad scrabbling for hope. Here's mine. On politics—it can feel impossible and not be, not by a...
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Frances
- Nov 20, 2020
- 2 min
Meat sticks, mustard, and Jesus
1978 haunted my mailbox with a ghost of Christmas past. Mom, is that you? The year: 1978. The scene: an overwarm kitchen in Virginia with...
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Frances
- Nov 2, 2020
- 1 min
Election Anxiety
Is anyone calm right now? I washed the windows today as the Germans taught me—no Windex (sorry, dad)—just dish soap and water. I dusted....
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Frances
- Sep 19, 2020
- 1 min
August Slipped Away
Like a bottle of wine. 'Cause you were never mine. It was a summer of recovering from injury, of discovering new places and secret...
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Frances
- Sep 16, 2020
- 1 min
Finalist fever
I don't think of it as not-winning, I think of it as almost-winning. Maybe that says a lot about me, but I was the finalist for the Black...
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Frances
- Apr 1, 2020
- 1 min
A story to share
X-R-A-Y has just an amazing thing going. They celebrate beautifully condensed flash with brilliant images, flash that stops your heart. I...
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Frances
- Mar 28, 2020
- 1 min
It's been a month.
I miss him every single day. And missing him means I also miss my mama, and everyone we've lost, and we're losing more every day now. I...
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Frances
- Mar 28, 2020
- 1 min
Pandemic
Sheltering in place, avoiding every sneeze, feeling the sorrow of lost connection, but we're in this together. The upsides: bike rides,...
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