Music and Cats

A couple of weeks ago, I started the second quarter of the memoir writing classes that I’m taking at the UW Extension Writers Program. At the beginning of last quarter, I wrote about the class once or twice. Since I expect to be working harder at producing material for the class this quarter, I’ll probably […]

As I mentioned, I have a big deadline coming up at work this Thursday. We are submitting drawings for a project to the building department for a building permit. This means that we have to prove that the project, as designed, complies with all of the applicable building codes. I’ve spent most of the past […]

The second writing class was even more fun than the first. Laura, our teacher, lectured for a while about narrative voice and structure, and the difference between the author and the narrator in memoir, and blah blah perspective blah… Or maybe I could just type up my class notes. Wouldn’t that be fun reading? Anyway, […]

The first assignment for my writing class was a memory exercise. We were to write quick impressions of some firsts: first scent, first pet, first teacher, first car. Then we were to write a scene about one of these things. I chose first song. What follows is not, in fact, one remembered morning from […]

Tuesday night was the first meeting of the memoir writing class that I’m taking at UW Extension this quarter. I haven’t taken a real class since finishing architecture school 16 years ago. I’ve gone to continuing education seminars, and the occasional short workshop, but nothing on the scale of this full-quarter, 3-hours-each-Tuesday class. Given […]