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 […]

Happy Birthday to Apocalypse TV

Today, my first novel turned two. Called Apocalypse TV, it’s about an English professor who faces all kinds of adversity on a religious reality TV show. It took six years […]

What I Want from a Writers Group

I met with my writers group yesterday. Though only a few of us were able to make it, the morning went well. I went in with the first eight pages […]

For Continuous Partial Attention Syndrome, Try Writing

This morning, someone talked about “Continuous Partial Attention.” As he talked, this appeared in my mind with capital letters. I thought, I’ll bet I could google that.  Forgive my ignorance […]