#2016

Before the After

I never set out to write a book about 9/11. Even as I read the pages of my work-in-progress, I know this to be true. To divulge too much...

This has been a year of rejection. Maybe last September I would not have been able to write so candidly about my own rejection, but that...

I've always loved Robert Hass's quote about writing: "It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having...

Maybe we all remember someone telling us all good things must come to an end. These words haunted me all throughout my reading of Aaron...

I'm not sure I've put much thought into the things that haunt me. Too often, these things appear in my writing as if by chance or perhaps...

James Taylor sings, well if you feel lost and lonely and don't know where to go, while I write this. I think of someone else singing this...

You're whatever kinda gem you wanna be, my best friend wrote at the end of his email. The email had nothing to do with gemology. And the...

When we give advice, we hope others will listen. Rarely do we take our own words of wisdom and put them to use. And I'm not sure anyone...

At the beginning of 2015, I decided NOT to make a list of resolutions. Though I adore lists, the idea that I had to change who I was to...