Archive - Intimations: A Writer's Discourse

May 2025

Small Things that Illuminate Big Spaces

A grab bag of snippets from "The Art of Brevity" to celebrate its birthday

May 25 •

Carpe diem the crap out of every single moment?

Urgency, glimmers, memorable moments, mortality

May 18 •

Slipping ... with Lidia Yuknavitch

Reframing stories and shifting shapes to claim and reclaim yourself

May 11 •

Launching something big: Memoir Nation

Find yourself in your life story.

May 4 •

April 2025

Creativity as an Act of Defiance

Get on your motorcycle and do a wheelie.

Apr 27 •

Writing retreats and you

Get away to find yourself. And your story.

Apr 20 •

My depression and my creativity

When the mind can't be drunk on anything

Apr 13 •

Writing about small towns

If you’ve read this newsletter or listened to my podcast, you’ll know I grew up in a small town in Iowa, I sometimes write about small towns, and I have…

Apr 6 •

March 2025

Silence as a way to hear yourself

Mar 23 •

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