C.M. Rivers

"The point of being an artist is that you may live." ~ Sherwood Anderson

Journal

  • A Child’s Christmas in Oregon

    A Child’s Christmas in Oregon

    In our little country house in the sopping-wet Willamette valley winter, heat radiated from the woodstove as my mother rubbed a cast-iron pan back and forth upon it, one hand holding a lid down tight to make popcorn the old-fashioned way.  I’d lay on the floor and play with the cat, listening to my mom’s Read more

  • Henry Miller (from Tropic of Cancer)

    “I was permitted to hear an incredible music…I heard the gestation of the new world…the sound of stars grinding and chafing, of fountains clotted with blazing gems….Music is planetary fire, an irreducible which is all sufficient; it is the slate-writing of the gods.” -Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer   Read more

  • “The amuse-bouche is the best way for a great chef to express his big ideas in small bites.”           -Jean-Georges Vongerichten Read more

  • “I’ve always just wanted to earn my living by writing.  The best thing is to go into my study in the morning and put words together.”  -Robert Harris Read more

  • “It often took me a full morning to write a paragraph.”  –Ernest Hemingway Read more