For Love of Chaos – My Viking Binge, Trump, & Wrecking-Ball Politics

September 25, 2016

Since becoming the full-time nanny for my little granddaughter, my reading tastes have taken a decisive darker turn. Instead of …

Poets on Poetry: Mark Doty, Mackerel & Metaphors

April 30, 2015

One of the things I love most is writing about writing, unraveling the creative process, how the mind at play …

November 20, 2014

What is it that I love about the wildly weird, dark and dorky stories of George Saunders? Ever since reading …

November 11, 2014

In the graduation speech that went viral last year, George Saunders wrote: “Most people, as they age, become less selfish and more …

September 9, 2014

What follows are the 20 favorite books that helped shape the way I think and write. It was hard to limit …

November 27, 2013

Recently, when most needed, I came across the essay “A Beautiful and Strange Otherness” by Wisdom Bridge founder, Francis Weller. …

September 2, 2012

I stumbled across him by accident. One thing led to another and another, the way it often happens surfing the internet. …

July 26, 2012

The following essay by Francis Weller captures so much of what I feel about nature, the natural habitat in which …