Genre: Literary

Hundreds of thousands of books are published every year—and that’s just in the US. From speculative fiction to creative nonfiction, poetry to textbooks, romance to historical records, the world is… Read More

The first day of this month began like most, with coffee in the garden. It had rained the night before and I was happy that it meant I wouldn’t have… Read More

Ze cooks and Ze draws, Ze plays basketball.  Ze occupies wall street and fights to change laws.                   Parenting, Art, Fitness, Stock… Read More

Blog 20 I recently ended a friendship that meant a lot to me. I cried about it, talked to some of my other friends about it. But when everything was… Read More

Blog #20   People often think that for writers, the words just flow like the breeze onto paper in a near-perfect way and after a couple of tweaks—Boom, a shining… Read More

I was inspired by my puppet making lesson with my class to start creating puppets of my own from characters that I have previously developed for my novel and short… Read More

Blog #19   I have been missing diners a lot these days, particularly the small red diner in Buffalo that my parents owned for 32 years (which is now temporarily… Read More

I’ve lived in the United States for twenty years now, which is more than half my life, and I have never felt like I completely belong here. I very much… Read More

Blog 19 I read an article a few months ago that said using someone as a muse can be extremely harmful. “You use them and throw them away when you’re… Read More