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I’ve been thinking a lot about the difference between privilege and duty. It’s difficult for me to think that speaking up at a time like this is a privilege. For me, speaking up for the rule of [...]

Winter has been lovely so far in the high peaks of Western North Carolina, if not also a bit disorienting. The week of Solstice and Christmas came with temperatures in the sixties. A couple of [...]

Let’s start this blogpost off with some wins, folks, because we gotta turn up the volume on good news, pronto! Thanks to phone calls bombarding the executive offices of Avelo Airlines, the [...]

I have a confession. I’ve been emailing with an AI chat bot about my books. Well, sort of … a few months ago, an obviously AI-generated email landed in my inbox (these usually just get diverted [...]

This month, my Call to Action is simple and heartfelt: I’d like you to read the last published piece of writing by Sustaining Circle member Penelope Boyer, who passed away last month from cancer. [...]

By the time you read this blog post, our trunk will have already been packed with cold-weather gear, as we headed out for a long weekend of camping in Great Smokies National Park. The maple trees [...]

This month, I’d like to call everyone’s attention to the harm that cancel culture (closely related to the right to free speech) can have on those inside our field–yes, writers you and I both [...]

Next week marks the one year anniversary of Hurricane Helene, which we now know was the deadliest hurricane to make landfall since Katrina (2005). Tearing across more than 500 miles of land in [...]

Were you outraged when President Trump “renamed” the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and Denali to Mt. McKinley? Usurpuring language gets to the core of culture-grabbing and erasure, and [...]

Eighteen years ago I listened to the poet Marvin Bell improvise verse over the top of live cello music, in the grand ballroom of a hotel in gray, sopping Seaside, Oregon. It was my first winter [...]