I love getting my daily email from Advice to Writers. It reminds me that I am a writer, before I even open it, and the advice is so often spot-on to what I’ve been thinking about, that it’s uncanny. So, this, from John Green, author of Looking for Alaska, The Fault in Our Stars, and other […]
I have two poems in the Fall 2015 issue of Twisted Vine — live now! The typo (a comma instead of a period) at the end of my poem “Afterward” is my typo and not theirs, I was much chagrined to discover. What comes afterward, is open-ended, right?
Yesterday I once again got the dreaded, automated call from my daughter’s high school — the third time this school year — “under lockdown.” My gut twisted and the muscles in my shoulders and arms seized up. I had that weird fight or flight adrenaline rush, weird because there was no where to go and […]
Imagine that an anthropologist is studying your life. Based on the evidence, what will he or she infer is most important to you? 1. Subject is devoted to Spider Solitaire. (That would be me.) 2. Whenever the cellphone beeps or pings or kaboodles, subject picks it up as if it were a fussy baby and […]