Last night I dreamed about Apache helicopters. Before that it was Nelson Mandela wearing a gas mask. My “war” reading is seeping in. But dreams aside, today was 11 hours on the road: Michigan, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
