My poet-friend and physical anthropologist, Sharon Hurlbut offers ten things she learned at the Tin House writing conference last week in Portland, Oregon. She also notes that writers don’t drink as much as archaeologists. I’d have to agree from the wee amount of archaeology field work I did. This is not to say that writers don’t drink. This is only to say that archaeologists are in a whole different league.

And here are my own notes on the writing conference at Tin House from 2006.