I've been on a pretty good roll the past month, writing my way through this memoir with an outline that's tethered to a narrative arc that feels right. I've done some of my best work in local coffee shops! But I was still spending too much time on social media and reading the news. I …
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I have never been one for January 1st resolutions beyond a vague "do better, do more." This is probably due to being critical of myself nearly every day of the year. Why would I need to formalize that and attach expectations to it?? I'd rather avoid the whole exercise! But that way of thinking is …
... I finish a proposal for my memoir. It's the last day of 2018, and I will not ring in 2019 until a draft of this proposal is done. I'm close, so it IS going to happen. Came across this poem as I sat at my desk, and I'm feeling it. I've been diving into …
This August 24-26th I'll be attending a writer's conference known as HippoCamp for the first time and leading a breakout session with my partner Parker Blaney. The session is called Writing Home. HippoCamp is in its fourth year and is an outgrowth of Hippocampus Magazine, a terrific journal founded by Donna Talarico. It publishes only …
This post does not bring "new" news, but I wanted to document this wonderful event here.... On November 15, 2015 I had the pleasure of reading an excerpt from my memoir to a packed house at The Word Barn in Exeter, New Hampshire. Also reading that afternoon was Peter Anderson, this year's George Bennett Fellow …
This past Saturday I delivered a paper entitled, "Escape and Re-Invention: The Automobile in This Boy's Life and Anywhere But Here" for a panel at the 2012 South Atlantic Modern Language Association conference in Durham, NC. The panel theme was "Horseless Carriages and Hybrid Mustangs: Travel and the Automobile in Twentieth- and Twentieth-First-Century American Literature," …
I read the passage below at Rosh Hashanah services last Thursday morning. For those of you who are wondering why I was observing the High Holidays: while I was raised as a Catholic, I married a nice Jewish man. I haven't converted, but we did raise our sons in the Jewish faith and, truth be …
