the choir

I love language, the whole idea of it.  When you really stop and think about it, it's…


déjà vu

Hello, friends.  It's been a while. Rather than spend an undue amount of…


julie and julia (and me)

Where to begin... My writing chops feel a bit like our first glimpse of the Tin Man in……


reading the runes

Recently, a friend of mine went through a difficult break-up.  Coincidentally, everything else in his…


waking up

Toward the end of August, I became very tired. As September tiptoed in, I began to say to…


something nice to say

From the time we were in Kindergarten, we've heard the old…


hum

It's amazing what you can hear when you really listen. As summer…


fallen

Saturday, I woke to find a message waiting on my cell.  It had come in a couple of hours…


regret

regret personified: boy being stalked by dragon in the dark In [my recently…


the lookout

In writing The Best Advice So Far (the forthcoming book and this blog), I can't tell you the…