Poetry is Really Worth Trying Out*
This past week, my first chapbook of poems was released by Kelsay Books. I am very pleased with the book and am happy it is out. Yet I know many […]
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Seeing Suicide Survival Through TV Time
Tonight my wife and I watched another episode in a network show we’ve been casually following. It hasn’t been our favorite. The writing and acting are not always even, but […]
Things I Learned Hanging Out with Fiction Writers
If I’m completely honest, I didn’t know any fiction writers until I got to college. In high school, we didn’t have a fiction writing class. I knew athletes. I knew […]
Facing the New Normal: One Difficulty Two Years after the loss
One difficulty with grieving the loss of a son after two years comes down to this: Most people I know, well, they know of my loss, but they don’t want […]
On Developing a Contemporary Model of Writing
I don’t mean to be excessively platonic. That is, I don’t want to over-state the idea that our ideas come before our sense of reality. But it does seem that […]