ON THE VERGE

Today begins the last week of my two kids living at home.  I am trying to wrap my head around it. How time moves, at once, both so slowly...

I did what I normally do.  In the spring I dug some holes. Sprinkled seeds. Watered. Got excited by my first lettuces and peas. Stake...

Or maybe the words are familiar through some kind of osmosis. A stray word here and there lodged in my brain, after visits with my Italian ...

There's a doofball character in the book The Plague by Albert Camus.        The writer. A terrible plague sweeps across the land an...

I was going to write about how ridiculous and idiotic and silly the show The Bachelorette is and how I am only watching it because my...

Confession: Sometimes I am a liar when it comes to talking the Joy of Revision with my writing students.  You can do it, I say. ...

Yesterday I woke up to news I wish I hadn't woken up to. Another mass shooting in America. But it could have been a bombing. Or a terror...