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Some days I can feel myself running, hotter than a fever. I do not fit into an envelope, curriculum vitae, cover letter, statement of merit, sample syllabi, you-name-it. Like Whitman’s patient [...]

Finally: Website Updates, as promised! And today, after substitute teaching at a local elementary school, I came home and applied for 3 more professorships. Call it anxious productivity. Some [...]

Ladies and Gentlemen:I am pleased to announce that I have been awarded a full scholarship to attend a week-long writing residency to study the personal essay with author Scott Russell Sanders at [...]

I know that I need to update my website, but somehow the trail has wooed me more than the desk this week, and so it is. A proper update will occur within a week’s time. For now, suffice it to say [...]

There were so many reasons to get home and write. But no – picture this: After a day of hiking down, across part of, and then back out of Linville Gorge (“The roughest piece of land this side of [...]

A while back, some friends and I vowed to spend a week doing long day hikes in celebration of springtime. This week has finally arrived, and so far we have spent a day hiking Max Patch to Lemon [...]

I have 10 active writing fellowship, residency, or professorship applications in circulation, 10 submissions of creative nonfiction or fiction out there, and 2 additional requests for funding for [...]

Thanks to author Thom Jones for inspiration for this little experiment: There were thirty-five of us and jesus-knows-how-many of them. The VC could make six men sound like sixty and they [...]

I am a raging bull. I am a machine gun. I am one-track, single-mind, on-fire, watch-your-back, ready-or-not, determined. Some days I run like fear is a fire and its flames are licking my heels. [...]

We’re getting closer and closer to the time. Say it with me, folks, say it. Make it true by believing it is possible: Madison, Wisconsin. Madison Wisconsin. Madison, Wisconsin. One more time: [...]