Category: The Write Stuff

A weekly interview series of San Francisco Bay Area authors, first published at SF Weekly from October 4, 2012 to January 28, 2016 and then for a few more years at Litseen.com.

Amanda Muñiz on Ephemerality, and Having Pockets Full of Sand

Amanda Muñiz on Ephemerality, and Having Pockets Full of Sand

Posted on by Sydney Armstrong

If you could give advice to your 15-year-old self, what would it be?

Everything is ephemeral. I think when I was younger everything seemed stagnant or unending. As I have gotten older I have come to realize that nothing, neither good nor bad, is infinite. Then again how we perceive time is partly based on how long we have been alive so to my 15-year-old self, who is half my age at the time of this interview, I might seem like another condescending adult dismissing or belittling her life experiences. Instead of advice, I would much rather give words of encouragement. Actually, screw that too… I would tell her to buy bitcoin when it was .05 cents a pop

Joy Lanzendorfer on Saying Something About Life and What It Means to Be Human

Joy Lanzendorfer on Saying Something About Life and What It Means to Be Human

Posted on by Sydney Armstrong

What’s the most important life lesson you’ve learned? Or: what was your last moment of awe?

Moment of awe: I was watering my garden when a hummingbird flew up and hovered beside me, about a foot away, for what seemed like a long time. The evening sun was hitting the patch of raspberry-colored feathers on his throat so that they shone like metal. I gasped. He gazed at me with stern eyes, then flew away.