Dec 13, 2021
I love teaching at the Loft Literary Center and one tiny grace of the pandemic – the increase in Zoom classes. I’m teaching four different classes this Winter and Spring through the Loft. Please consider joining me. It’s a true honor to teach writing and to get the...
May 20, 2021
I want to talk about my daughter. BTW – I’m talking tonight with her permission. She’s 15. And she’s got anxiety. It was manageable – until COVID. But COVID and starting high school changed everything. She’s also asthmatic. We all are actually. But my daughter, when...
Dec 28, 2020
I don’t really write memoir. Or autobiography. Mostly, I think I’m writing pain. My pain. Poetry, short stories, novels. My characters always have the same inner problem. They have a lot of emotions. But they don’t think they do. And they think the answer is to grind...
Dec 14, 2020
I was a fundraiser. I was a database analyst. I’m telling you all this so you can hold me accountable. Because I keep thinking solicitation strategies and database configurations are the only card of value I hold. They aren’t. I think I’m ready to say it. That’s not...
Nov 23, 2020
Hey Folks. Let’s talk about story for a minute. There is a TV show that has a strong fandom – not gonna name names. But, basically, their finale was bad storytelling. Promises to the viewer unfilled and such. Out of Character moments. Whatever. I’ll write about...
Aug 19, 2020
“Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.”* —Martin Luther King Jr, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” 14 April 1963 I want us to really...
