Over the weekend I attended the 31st Annual Tucson Poetry Festival as a representative for a literary magazine of which I will be an editorial staff member. Aside from manning a display table of past issues I conducted a writing workshop with the mighty Simon J. Ortiz, Acoma intellectual, writer, and poet aimed at youth and young adult writers, though anyone, of any age, was welcomed to attend. After the workshop, I had lunch with Orlando White, a Diné poet, and he and I attended another workshop facilitated by poet Harryette Mullen. The focus, or at least what began as the focus (we didn’t stay for the duration of the workshop), was childhood memories. We, the some forty to fifty workshop participants, were asked to think of our childhoods, and engage our five senses for children remember and associate through tactile sensations, concrete connections. We were asked to free write and to describe three to five distinct memories from each one of our individual childhoods.