Almost any writer can tell you that the moment she comes out as a "writer," she will drown in a deluge of conflicting...

Almost any writer can tell you that the moment she comes out as a "writer," she will drown in a deluge of conflicting...
...to say that "age matters." To say it doesn't belies the fact that age drives nearly everything we do from birth to...
Over the weekend I came down with a bad case of cramps. Writer's cramps. Brain cramps. Words got stuck, no matter what...
If you're like me, you've had it up to here with all the election noise clogging the ether. Vote for my guy. Your guy...
I've been thinking a lot about pods lately. All kinds of pods. Pea pods, to be sure, since the harvest is in and...
Let's face it. We are spending more time in our homes than in offices or other places of work. We use our own space,...
By the end of July, I'd be anxiously looking forward to the first day of school, usually Tuesday after Labor Day. I...
Like most of us, I've been doing a lot of reading and writing lately. My most recent book was Heath Hardage...
I used to think that privilege meant you had to have a lot of money, that you had to be born into the "right" level of...
You read that right. It's not a typo. I've been thinking about how unmoored, how unanchored, how adrift so many of us...
We're all doing our best to stay calm in the midst of a daily tsunami of bad news. As a writer, it's less...
#ICYMI, It Started With a Memory What did? Out of the Desert. That memory was triggered by an old black-and-white...