What would a driftwood fort built by Elizabeth Bishop look like?<\/p>\n
What would a poem by her about the experience read like?<\/p>\n
Why not build a cairn?<\/p>\n
How do driftwood forts made from redwood differ from the ones I build?<\/p>\n
Why did I spend three hours writing a piece about biscuits and gravy?<\/p>\n
Why does the flight of pelicans swinging low over the ocean entrance me so?<\/p>\n
Why don’t more people start conversations by asking \u201chow are you?\u201d instead of opening with agendas or monologues?<\/p>\n
Why do I evangelize on behalf of writing with AlphaSmarts and keep giving them away to aspiring writers?<\/p>\n
Will I catch a surf perch the first month of fishing?<\/p>\n
Where are you?<\/p>\n
How come I feel like I’m the only one in the world who knows or cares that the poet Richard Hugo wrote an incredible mystery novel, Death and the Good Life<\/i>?<\/p>\n
Why do I want spread the word on this lost Pacific Northwest classic?<\/p>\n
Why are gulls so underrated?<\/p>\n
Why can’t people do their jobs?<\/p>\n
Why is Sonny Sixkiller such a great name? (I once owned his football card.)<\/p>\n
Why do I derive such incalculable joy from receiving handwritten letters from the Oregon Coast’s best unpublished writer?<\/p>\n
Why do I know that I will publish this writer’s stories one day?<\/p>\n
Why do I want the next Nestucca Spit Press publication to be a broadsheet printed on a 150-year old letter press?<\/p>\n
Will there be another 20 years at the Oregon Coast for me?<\/p>\n
Is there really gold in Gold Beach for me?<\/p>\n
When will I start really paying attention to my reoccurring dreams about Sonny? The answers are there, I think. The one with her running wild on a glacier cannot be ignored.<\/p>\n
What are the ingredients of my perseverance? Should I bottle and market them?<\/p>\n
Why is the high road the better road for me?<\/p>\n
Can I still play tennis?<\/p>\n
Why do I love watching people surf but have no wish to surf?<\/p>\n
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