THE LIFE OF INANIMATE OBJECTS When the Covid pandemic struck and we were directed to shelter in place, after the initial shock wore off and I accepted the fact that I was going to be alone in my house for an extended period of time, I started organizing piles of...

Write Me A Poem I was scanning a bookshelf in my house, deciding what tokeep and what to give away, when I spotted three diaries tucked between a pair of deco bronze bookends of nude women reading. The diaries were old, the bindings were shredded and the Chinese brush...

BLOG SPAREPARTS & LOOSE ENDS If you told me I literally hadto eat poop every day and I would look younger, I just might.  - - - Kim Kardashian Trying to stay young is like chasing a dream backwards. It’s a demon with bad breath snapping at your heels, a loose end...

  WHY DO I WRITE? I was five years old, sitting cross-legged on the beige and greenshag carpeting in our living room, scribbling in my Cinderella coloring book. It was a stormy day in January and the cast iron radiators were spitting and hissing. Icicles jutted down...

WHAT DO YOU KNOW? We don't know what we know. Or how much we know. Or how wellwe know it. After writing and editing professionally since 1988, I offered my first six-week writing class series in March, 2016. I was qualified. I’d written many books, more than a dozen...

INNOCENCE AND WONDER In the Buddhist philosophy, the term “Beginner’s Mind” meansapproaching a situation innocently, like it’s happening for the first time. No preconceived notions. No previous experiences to influence you in any direction, positive or negative. You...