Thrilled to let you know I have a new essay out in the lovely online journal, Dorothy Parker's Ashes. It’s an essay about my mother’s...

Summer 2022 Sitting on a bench in the rear of an outdoor amphitheater on a summer evening in Portland, I watch Lidia Yucknavitch make her...

February 2022 Is it possible the fog that descended on me with the Covid pandemic is lifting? For most of the past two years I've been...

I love literary fiction, but in these pandemic days I'm almost exclusively reading fantasy. Most exciting are the slew of books which...

Ross Gay has inspired me to try to write a brief piece every day, focused on a moment of delight from that day. I discover more things to...

So many quality shows are streaming these days! Here is a list of some of my faves: The Queen's Gambit (Netflix) - Historical Drama, set...