As the Clouds Hung Heavy
Ten years later, my mom asked my older brother and me to take our cat to a friend’s farm and shoot him. Are children whose parents can pay their bills put in that situation?
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Legs Like Leaden Lumps
Second run in the books. Sheesh. Not doing much during a pandemic really affects endurance.
Rethinking Craft with Matthew Salesses
s the craft of writing a given? Do we all know what craft means? There are characters, conflict, tone, subtext, plot, and descriptions. Or is craft a prescribed notion? Just another point-of-view?
First Jog Since April
Coping during Covid sucks. Exercise has been a strategy for coping with stress. But, it’s been hard to do that at home with the demands of family and work. Today, I finally went for a… Read More »First Jog Since April
In Disappearing Earth, Structure Suffers for Atmosphere
Disappearing Earth is a debut novel that’s less of a thriller and more of a conceptual attempt at atmosphere.
Reading During the Plague Year
A quick summary of what I read this year while coronavirus blanketed the Earth.
NY Times: How We Survive Winter
Read this essay last night and enjoyed it. With all of the talk that this will be “our darkest winter,” it’s refreshing to remember that light returns and in our darkest moments we’re able to… Read More »NY Times: How We Survive Winter
When Presidential Candidates Weren’t Sore Losers
I found this gem in the American Archives of Public Broadcasting. Granted, it’s from before 2008, but it’s still a nice reminder of an era before Donald Trump.