[Weymouth board member Elaine Sills and I after tonight’s live music performance in The Great Room of Boyd Mansion. The performers? Esteemed Fred Moyer (pianist) and Nancy Green (celloist), [...]
The other side of my writing life is my editing life. I serve on the Advisory Board for Memoir <(and) journal and am founding Associate Editor of TRACHODON literary magazine, as [...]
I don’t often like to reflect the negatives in life. If a situation is challenging, I’ll take some personal time after I get through it to consider how I might grow from that challenge. But by [...]
There’s the humble chair in the afternoon sunlight… And the big booty chair in The Great Room. The understated chair in the entrance hallway… And the squatter’s [...]
A quick news flash for local readers: This Sunday, October 24th at 2pm, I will be giving a presentation and book signing at Weymouth Center on my book, Lost Crossings. Come learn about [...]
Questions I have asked other writers—decades my senior—this week at Weymouth: “What does the compulsion to write a novel feel like?” “Am I going to love this life so much that I’ll become [...]
And so the Boyd house mansion fills with the sound of women’s laughter, fast fingers at the keyboards, and the nighttime footsteps not of ghosts but of fleshy creative spirits—the human kind, the [...]
More Weymouth related writing soon, but for now: John Carr Walker and I were pleased to learn today that our literary debut with TRACHODON was written up in New Pages this Monday morning. It’s [...]
I suppose it’s only fair to say that, for a brief moment after printing my fiction manuscript, I looked around the room and thought to myself: Now what? The silence lasted a millisecond [...]