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It seems so simple: people from all walks of life step into the classroom, talk a little bit about their experiences, and give this “writing thing” a go. But time and again I am [...]

Camp officially ended today and I’ve switched hats from Summer Arts Faculty to College of Creative Arts Faculty. It means exchanging one set of keys for another, switching meal plans, and [...]

They say the final step to truly learning something is when you can turn around and teach it to someone else. That philosophy, along with my cheesy obsession with mustaches, prompted me to devote [...]

There’s something about the crystal blue-green expanse of lakes in Northern Michigan that make everything else in the world seem to fall away. The to-do lists, the upcoming road trip, the [...]

The first 59 pages of my novel-in-progress are officially drafted! All that remains is writing the email to the kind literary person interested in my work and I should be able to exhale just in [...]

There are a few modifications to my schedule I’ve had to make this summer in order to meet the July 31st deadline for the (beginning of the) novel. With my colleagues, I joke that I’m [...]

A few weeks ago, I explained the challenge I’d been given to write the first 50 pages of a novel (the n-word, as I called it, due to intimidation) along with a synopsis of the remainder of [...]

A few nights ago, I got to celebrate my friends’ upcoming marriage by floating on a pontoon boat across Green Lake. It must have been after 10:30pm by the time we moved the party onto the [...]

About this time last year, I wrote a short post titled “Ode to Teenagers” that turned out to be one of the (statistically) most popular posts on this site. It just goes to show, from [...]

I figure something like a “television debut,” however small or large, only happens once. Forgive the indulgence, but in case folks missed the episode, two versions are now available. [...]