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




I love language, the whole idea of it. When you really stop and think about it, it's…
Hello, friends. It's been a while. Rather than spend an undue amount of…


Toward the end of August, I became very tired.
As September tiptoed in, I began to say to…
From the time we were in Kindergarten, we've heard the old…
It's amazing what you can hear when you really listen.
As summer…
Saturday, I woke to find a message waiting on my cell. It had come in a couple of hours…
In [my recently…