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Unfinished Business
If I were a carpenter my workshop would be crammed full of three legged tables and boxes without drawers and skeletons without shelves. Story fragments have been dragged from computer to computer over...
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America’s Kids
Kids are everywhere on the Fourth of July 2013 in the Village of Egg Harbor, Wisconsin. Babies hang in pouches on their parents’ chests, strollers and wagons dot the crowd, the majority walk on their...
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Life According to Facebook
A former classmate avoids the MFA program reunion. Her writing career isn’t developing like life according to Facebook. In the five years since graduating, others have published, found full-time...
View ArticleSecond Child Syndrome
Makes a second child kind of puff up their chest and look somewhere else for the limelight. Maybe become a writer. Continue reading
View ArticleLife Balance
Evasive life balance might be easier to write about than achieve. Should you care? Continue reading
View ArticleFrom a Hospital Room
The view from a hospital room is always the same—a bright spot suggesting that everyone else is moving along on a normal day. Continue reading
View ArticleSpeechless in Snow
The very thought that almost eight thousand people have taken the time to shoot a little video about shoveling leaves me speechless. Continue reading
View ArticleThe Night Before the Book Launch
Twas the night before the book launch, when all through the house All the creatures were stirring, except there’s no mouse. The clothes are all hung in the closet with care, In hopes that they’ll fit...
View ArticleWriting Retreat #1
Writing retreat...or time away to work. The real issue may be that in American culture there is discomfort sharing the label of work with purely artistic efforts. Continue reading
View ArticleWhy Buy That Book?
With hundreds of thousands of new book titles released every year, the possibility of making a good choice to read on that next plane ride is a crapshoot. Back cover blurbs can be as transparent as...
View ArticleFrightened Off Station Eleven
Margaret Atwood, PD James, Cormac McCarthy and James Howard Kunstler have not bothered my sleep in worse times. But I wouldn't sleep with Mandel's story in my mind. Continue reading
View ArticleWinter Stillness
While our departing President challenges us to continue to hope, his words are tempered by the reality of the world where there is a whole lot of hostility and inequality.Will Minnesota Cold become my...
View ArticleAldo Leopold Weekend
March 4, 2017, sixty-nine years after Aldo Leopold penned his final contribution to A Sand County Almanac, a marathon reading of his work begins in a small building called The Schoolhouse in the...
View ArticleKen Follett, Jodi Picoult and Phillipa Gregory
Some authors are like Facebook friends who post about a puppy, a grandchild, a new writing project, a spectacular vacation then disappear for months.
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