I Can’t Commit
At the first annual Iceland Writers Retreat, I got to take two workshops from Pulitzer prize-winning writer Geraldine Brooks. For each workshop, she asked us...
Form of … a Refrigerator
It sounds good to call what I do “freelance.” But it really means that when there’s no work there’s no money. Today started out like...
Shameless Summer Festival Post
I considered calling this post “What I Did on My Summer Vacation,” or more accurately, “Shameless Self-Promotion.” But since I’m being shameless, I thought, “Titles...
Book Report: A Beginning, A Muddle, and an End
I wanted a nap, but I had a deadline. So I tried to stack stones knowing I’d have to do it over again tomorrow anyway....
Tour of the Artist’s Home
One recent morning as I was second-guessing a paragraph for an article I was about to turn in, I stepped into the shower, and my...