These are just some sample journal pages from my travels to Mexico, Morocco, Vienna, Key West, Turkey.  I have kept these extensive and details journals for years.  It has always been a central part of my process.  I enjoy sharing them.  … [Read more...]

"It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.” … [Read more...]

"What a powerful thing to know that one's own desires are mappable on to strangers."  from George Saunders, from a story about traveling to DuBai.  From "The Brainhead Megaphone," I believe.I love this quote by Saunders.  The idea of making your desires mappable as … [Read more...]

"We all return somewhere," my daughter, Kate O'Connor Morris, writes in her beautiful essay, published recently in the Evergreen Review.  I am her mother and I'm proud, but I also think she's a great writer.   And just beginning... These images of Coney Island … [Read more...]