This Goddamned Book about Hitler
I wrote the below a couple of years ago. Today, I've solved a years-long quandary about what to do with this book and I'm sending it off...
When the fog lifts
I’ve been very public about my lifelong struggle with food. The first essay that a publisher ever paid me money for was about compulsive...
The Great Choir of Hope
Dear Friends, It’s been a while, and there’s no good place to begin aside from saying that it’s been a while. If you’ve read my first...
The Things We've Learned
Friends, I had the opportunity last week to meet, for the first time, with a book club of people who’d read my book, “Ten Boxes: A Story...
Monsters, anxiety and mental yoga.
Friends, I used to call myself a perfectionist. It was the only word I could find for myself, but it never fit quite right. I’d look...
Three days of 30 days/30 poems
National Poetry Month is a challenge now that I committed to a poem-a-day. It's amazing how the day can be quickly frittered away...
Days 8 & 9 - 30 Poems/30 Days
Day 8 - Our prompt had to do with magic. Day 9 was about imagined disease and discovered cures. Here's "Magic Box" and "45, Hungry Thing"...
National Poetry Month, days 6 and 7
Day six was about heartbeat. Day seven was plucked from a word mash-up. . . Here's "Helicopter Shopping Mall" and "Sand Candy Milagro"...
A poem a day keeps perfection at bay . . .
It's difficult to worry about making a perfect poem when the commitment is simply: write one every singe day. Today's prompt challenged...
NAPOMO, day 4
Today's National Poetry Month prompt had to do with things unsaid. Here's what I had to say about it: "What I Didn't Say Before I Asked...
