Why Do I Write?
I stayed up until 2 a.m. this week because a poem was rattling around in my head. I just needed to get it down on paper. Before I knew it, hours had passed. That sometimes happens when I’m writing and editing. Not hard to imagine someone saying, “What? And you didn’t have a deadline to meet? So why would you do that?” I know. It sounds anything but sane. Unless you are a writer or artist, maybe there’s just no way to understand. How does this keep happening to me? I grew up i