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Night Bloom highlights the power of creative expression in prison writing workshops. Community, courage, and creativity help inmates find themselves in the ongoing story that is their lives. Honesty about the past, finding words in the present, and imagining a future all add up to framing a larger sense of humanity. Through vignettes, profiles, essays, and examples of inmate writing it demonstrates the roles creative writing can play in broade...

Blue Bike compiles stories of bike love and loss. Toso travels the dangerous terrain of obsession with the high art and sacred geometry of man's most wonderful invention. Here you will find zany friends enduring weeks of flatulence, a final bike ride with a dying father, and threats of jail time in Ruby, Arizona. All of this is fresh picked, raw, and good for your heart. Time to take a spin.

Wild Things collects and reflects on stories of strange and wonderful encounters with animals both exotic and familiar. It chronicles the lessons learned when people can see and listen to our fellow creatures, our furry and scaly fellow travelers through life here on the blue planet. Our lives are enriched by what animals offer up as ways to live.

Moments of clarity and insight offer a taste of connection, peace, and meaning. Toso has made it his business to notice these moments, and, if he is lucky, to record some of them in words. Essays explore the possibility that resides in the mystery of raw experience. In the weaving of reflection and story, Toso makes his way toward what he finds good and true and worthy of wonder. It's a rocky path, but offers up gold in tiny, random nuggets. H...

A son pays tribute to his father in a song of farewell. He processes his grief by writing what he could not say while his father was still alive. Love, loss, and the healing of a son as he sees better what it means to be a man and a father.

Erec Toso landed in rural northwestern New Mexico with a job on his hands. He had to finish a house only partly constructed. No weather-proof exterior, no septic, no wiring, no plumbing, no insulation, no drywall and on and on. Only problem was, he was a teacher, not a builder. He met some demons -- and some angels -- on his way to a Certificate of Occupancy. This is not a how-to for builders, but a series of ruminations on why one would build...

Simple as That" dances with the idea that we are made, in part, of words. It posits, through reflections and ordinary epiphanies, that the foundation of who we are resides in stories, stories that we told ourselves and forgot, stories that are still waiting to be written. To make a life we love we need to create a story to live within, a story built from the heart's desires -- that simple, but not that easy.

Taking Up Residence speaks to the fear and softening that comes with getting older. It doesn't run from the fear but embraces it, finding in it a courage to tell the story too frightening to face in early and mid life. As the season grows cool, the time to sing is now.

You Never Know is a collection of short prose and poetry that explores the tension between elation and despair. Each piece stands on its own but offers a counter-statement to others in the collection. Love pulses through the work, but so does loss. Humor softens some of the blow.

A teacher finds himself unable to handle the workload of a complicated university teaching job because of an onset of cognitive decline. He has a family history of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Lewy Body dementia, and Pick's disease, and he sees the darkness coming. But, for a while anyway, he perseveres and finds peace in serving others. In sidestepping his own worries about the growing symptoms, he finds a sleeping part of himself. That voice, o...

Late one evening in the summer of 2003, Erec Toso arrived home to his wife and children after an ordinary day at his university office. In the darkness of his yard, a rattlesnake lay along the path, basking in the post-monsoon coolness. Toso, lost in thought, never saw the snake, which struck him on the foot and injected a huge dose of venom. Zero at the Bone is a deeply personal narrative about Toso's physical recovery and emotional transform...