I am having so much fun teaching my Writing With the Senses class at the University of Redlands. My students are wonderful--very sweet and intelligent and curious. They are writing some gorgeous work. The time is just whizzing by--I can't believe we have only one more week of class. So far, we have explored Smell, Touch, and Taste, with our senses and on the page. Next week, we will be exploring Sound (culminating in a field trip to the Integratron, where we will indulge in a sound bath.) I wish we had time to explore Sight, too, but I figured that because we live in such a visual culture, sight is the easiest sense to write about, and I wanted to give the other senses their due. I am so glad I have this opportunity to tap into that inspiring, creative Johnston energy again. Being on campus, I keep running into ghosts of my younger self. So many memories on that quad, in that dorm...