Living In Place
The Canine Cure
In my thirty-year career, I’ve suffered the repetitive stress injuries and muscular-skeletal problems that result from overuse of my hands, poor ergonomics and too much sitting....
My Year In Review
My greatest achievement this year has been consistency: I’ve walked out to my studio and written in solitude almost every day, sometimes only for a couple of hours, and sometimes...
Befriending Doubt
If hope is the thing with feathers, then Doubt is the thing with claws. After writing gloriously since August, I’ve come to the end of yet another draft of Ellen, a novel. No...
With Permission
One hundred and fifty years ago, on November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered his now famous Gettysburg Address, a document remarkable not just because it’s so...
The Writers’ Barn & Shared Office Space
Last week I had the good fortune to teach a writing workshop at The Writers’ Barn, in Shelburne, Vermont. The barn is just that – a barn, but it’s been renovated into...
On The Fence
Last November, I participated in National Novel Writing Month, better known as NaNoWriMo. I didn’t write an entire novel in those thirty short days, but I did I add...