Have some time over the holidays? Read a couple of classics THE BOOK OF TEA and WHAT THE STONES REMEMBER Read more
Christmas is just another day In this dark season I dispense with Christmas and reflect in gratitude upon the invention of the light bulb. Read more
MEMOIR WORKSHOP: What's a Memoir? A common trap for memoirists is to replace what really happened with what they wish had happened, or what was the right thing to do. Read more
Insomnia Overcome A lot of my writing is done in my sleep – I wake up in the morning with the resolution of a challenge, a few choice words, a title to something, an idea for a new project, whatever. Read more
BOOK REVIEW: City of Thieves, by David Benioff How many risks would I be willing to take to find an egg for my family? Read more
Women's liberation comes from the inside — eating alone Women’s liberation comes from the inside, and some of the outdated thought patterns of my childhood have been slow to dissolve. This aversion to eating alone was one of the last to go. Read more
Twenty things you can do about gun violence Whatever your view of powers greater than you, there are others within your group who are fighting gun violence. Find them. Read more
Franklin's Funeral I thought to myself that the people of this church do as they say they do. There are no excuses on a Saturday afternoon. They were there for their brother and for you and really for all of us. Read more
BOOK REVIEW: Sweetbitter, by Stephanie Danler I, the happy, hopeful, hippy cannot connect to this disjointed, disaffected, nihilist. Her goals trickle only so faintly outside of herself. Read more