Winter 2012
Barcelona
"El Infierno" placed at Eclectica
A-Story/Week begins
Volunteer, Little Brothers
Fall 2011
Novel revision begins
"Shangri-la" placed at The Rose & Thorn Journal
Chronicles The Experiment: Can one get from Thanksgiving to Christmas Ad Free?
Austin City Limits, South Padre Island TX
Sharon Arts Studio study
Troy Jollimore writing advice: "You don't need a program or a group. All anyone really has to do is write."
Summer 2011
Aspen Summer Words Literary Festival & Readers Retreat (Modern Middle East)
Kick off Freewriter Film Fridays
UCLA Extension writing workshop
Nikki Finney writing advice (as we dangled in a plane off the Rockies): Don't remember. Just enjoyed the conversation on life, politics, art ultimately infused with politics.
Derek Green writing advice amidst beer & Quiznos at DEN: Too many laughs, too much commiseration and storytelling to remember anything more than enjoying each others stories.
Spring 2011
First readers feedback for novel
Joined Friends of the San Francisco Public Library
VAMOS Sonoma Writing Retreat
Winter 2011
Complete 2nd & 3rd drafts of novel
VAMOs novel workshopping begins
Hawai'i
Kung Pao Kosher Comedy volunteer
Fall 2010
Cervantino Festival, Guanajuato Mexico
Completed first draft of novel
Litquake
Completed read of Monya B's manuscript
Sharon Bray workshop @ Stanford
Summer 2010
Serious Amateurs workshopping
The Writer's Studio workshop
Chinatown travel piece featured in Bay Area papers
Jennifer Egan writing advice: "Be willing to write really badly. And read writers you like."
Spring 2010
Performed at Focus Gallery with Straight Arms
2010 Editorial Internship begins, TravelersTales
Joined National Writers Union
Received 1st Bat Mitzvah card
Mourned LOST
Winter 2010
Maui
Launched ThisGeneration.net
Continued SF Grotto courses
Paris & Amsterdam
Donated car
2007-2009
Writing workshops, various
Judith Van Gieson: "Find something that lets your time be freed to just write."
Janis Cooke Newman writing advice: "You don't want to just write."
Pam Houston writing advice: "Sure, you don't need a program. But how else is anyone going to give themselves two years to just write?"
Volunteer, donor: Campaigns 2008 (D), 826 Valencia, San Francisco School Volunteers, KQED, Global Giving (including Art Action for Peace supporting young Iraqi artists, training 100 women football {soccer} coaches in Rwanda, Afghan Institute of Learning, microloans for Ugandan women, Miguel Angel Asturias Academy)
