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My final week officially registered as Writer-in-Residence for Interlochen Arts Academy seemed largely uneventful. I’m not accustomed to teaching students I’ll never see again. The four-day [...]

Of course, in the end, they’re as beautiful as all the untold sunrises before them. The girls in their formal dresses: neatly placed bows, shimmering lavender under the stage lights, strapless [...]

Good news, dear readers! A short-short that I wrote for my MFA thesis (and was published in Sugar Mule this winter) has been picked up by Fiction Daily, an aggregate that focuses on bringing the [...]

If you haven’t read Michael Pollan’s latest work of nonfiction, Food Rules, chances are you’ve at least heard of it. Today I took the plunge and bought myself a copy, delighting in every insight. [...]

[1 ½ days in bed, 3 day hiatus from exercise = all better] It’s a tough time to reflect on life as Writer-in-Res, as the campus is abuzz with what’s to come. This makes staying in the present [...]

Sick. I made it all the way to finals week on this island of teenage germs and now, now, I get sick.

milieu This word is the evil cousin to the word oeuvre and, when spoken, smears a botox-petrified frown across its user’s face. This frown is the same frown people make when they realize they [...]

The biggest surprise is that I am actually enjoying the HBO drama Generation Kill. The characters have real dilemmas. They are easy to differentiate from one another because of their unique [...]

oeuvre Do you really want to sound like you are birthing a hardboiled egg through your mouth when you speak? That’s why you should never use this word. cardigan Even thinking this word makes me [...]

It’s time to up the ante. I live in a country that has now been at war for more than a quarter of my lifetime. Children who are in 4th grade right now have never lived a day in this country [...]