Here’s a link to my article on Breaking Muscle called “What Color Is Your Dojo?

You could kind of say it was an old fashioned barn raising.

I love it when readers of my blog get in touch with me via my contact page.

[](http://www.kendallgiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Visibility_of_2012_Transit_of_Venus.png)NASA image of where the Venus transit will be visible A couple of days ago I posted about making blackberry cobbler from some wild blackberries we found and picked.

Brambles scraped and scratched. The air clung humid against skin crisped beneath the sun.

Previously I had written about choosing an MFA program, and this time I wanted to talk about a central component to any creative writing program—the writing workshop, where members submit stories for critique by the other members of the workshop.