Journal
Fall Equinox, COVID, and My Broken Suitcase
In which I discuss my big feelings.
posted September 23, 2022
Journal
Falcon Ridge and the Return of Hope
Have you ever had just one good day, the kind of day when you might even be foolish enough to hope for a brighter future than the one from which…
posted August 2, 2022
Journal
Revision and Greta Gerwig’s Little Women
Little Women Blog Greta Gerwig’s Little Women (2019) is a master lesson on the art of revision and narrative structure. As I watched it for the second (or maybe third) time, I…
posted March 11, 2022
Journal
Parenting/The Full Catastrophe
Leapfrog
At the pediatrician’s, I’m trying to count the fish swimming in the aquarium. I think there are eight. There are a lot of impediments to counting, including a plastic statue…
posted January 23, 2022
Writing Process
Let Go. Return.
From the poet Josephine Johnson: This is the need, the deep necessity of every life; To scatter wide seed in many fields,But build one barn. This is our blunder, to…
posted January 10, 2022
Journal
Perfectionism, Novels, Songs and The Great British Bake-Off
Stacey from Hertfordshire is desperate to be crowned star baker, which is why she is sitting on the floor in front of her oven holding its door shut with her…
posted July 23, 2021
Journal
Poems
Anam Cara
I fell in love with running writing groups eighteen years ago because of a man named Michael Biegner, and if it weren’t for his brilliance, humor, warmth and friendship, I…
posted May 26, 2021
Journal
We Made It.
I woke this morning with plans. I would read a chapter two of Six Walks in the Fictional Woods, work on chapter three of my new novel, re-read The Big…
posted January 20, 2021
30poemsinNovember
Poems
To Make Amends
I am looking for maps on GoogleTo show me the peoples my peoplesDisplaced. Finding their namesHearing their voices in the PennacookThe Pocumtuck the Mohawk But where do I even start?My…
posted November 25, 2020
