Auntie Mimi’s Rules for Writing
In grade 5, the messages about doing things “right” press themselves into you like a seal into pliable wax.
Tortoises. Or: Writing in Real Time
For years, I’ve been trying to write faster…with no real results.
10 Things to Keep for After
We know it will get better, but not how soon. A list of things that help.
A Chair of One’s Own
Before the New Year clicked over like an odometer to 2020, I had to have a chair.
Driving and Deadlines
By the time I pulled into my suburban driveway, I knew something very clearly: I was not going to get fired and miss a chance to change my life.
Fossil Memory
There are loves we can trace right to the moment we fell. That’s the way I love blown glass.
Paint and Possibility
In which we discover one writer’s passion for transformation, creating new things, different possibilities…
and paint chips.
Finding Stories in the Suburbs
“You must love me a lot to move here,” my husband said.
I did. I do. But I was also lost.
