What are you working on?
My husband and I are writing Glass Cabin Diary, a collaborative memoir about how we—husband and wife, novelist and poet—built our home by hand, something we had never done before. It reveals how we cut every board, framed every window, and how we managed to live in the midst of power tools and sawdust while building the house. We call it the Glass Cabin Diary because three of the four cabin walls are made of glass discarded from a church. My sections address what it means to build a house as a woman. I’m also writing about how home building has deepened my understanding of the creative process as well as inspired my poetry (I’m including some of my home-building poems). I’m trying to put into words what it feels like to live in such proximity to the natural world—heating our home with a wood stove, making do with a composting toilet and an outdoor shower, and glancing out to see hawks swoop or deer nibbling on foliage.
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