My published collection of short stories was born of a time in my early adulthood in Manhattan where I was single, sometimes lonely,...

I have difficulty with this notion that there is an appropriate time to protest injustice and conversely, an inappropriate time. How is...

Another installment in the process of getting (the right) words on paper: When I'm working on a book, my first draft tends to be an...

Another installment in the process of getting (the right) words on paper: Every Wednesday I take our teen son on a road trip to spend the...

Another installment in the process of getting (the right) words on paper: I just spent three days knowing a chapter was all wrong from...

Fandoms are passionate. Some more than others. It might seem odd to pen a piece about a fandom's reaction to casting, because, well…it's...

Whenever I do a reading, questions invariably arise regarding my approach to writing, where my ideas come from and how I get them from...

"HIDDEN: an impossible story" is a short, YA magical realism novel about a fifteen-year-old boy and his struggle with anxiety. There's a...

Late to the party, I know, but we just watched the movie "Selma". I wish I could have recorded the moments after that first sentence was...

We have a son who is fourteen years old. The first election he was old enough to be aware of was President Obama in 2008. We watched the...

This is NOT my work space. It is lovely, zen, uncluttered, and unfettered. The view is -- green, and while not particularly special, it...

So I recently won a short story contest on Words and Brushes. Yay for me! But seriously -- I'm happy, it's nice to be validated, to be...

I've been thinking a lot about writing...the act of writing, the putting of words to paper and making it real, rich, honest. All writers...

W.P. Kinsella died. For those who don't know, he wrote the book, "Shoeless Joe" upon which the movie, "Field of Dreams" was based. He...

When asked about my writing, I usually say I think of it as painting with words. That I strive to craft my prose with an eye toward...