Stevens Passages: It’s All Fun & Games Until Someone Gets Hurt
A long time ago, in a lifetime far away, I began each year with a dip in Puget Sound. My friends and I would meet...
No Raffi in This Family
What is the female form of emasculating? I don’t think English has one. Why do we have a word for making a man less of...
In Which a Review of American Gods Turns into a Writing Riff
Fiction changes lives. I haven’t written fiction since middle school. (Except that one NaNo novel in 2008, but that was therapy.) Even so, I am...
Pollyblog: When I Go Out With Artists (in Iceland)
Pollyblog: 1. When you don’t want to say too much, but 140 characters just won’t cover it. 2. Good ideas that haven’t got their legs yet....
A Sign of Things to Come: Christmas Music
When my mother was growing up, she never had the kind of Christmas Hallmark sells, and she was determined that my brother and I would...