Officially Published!

I’ve been pretty absent here, but I’ve been elbow deep in my Creative Writing MFA at Lesley University (not to mention the ever-raging pandemic). I have been doing a lot of writing–just nothing for blog publication. BUT, I did just recently get published! Last semester I worked on travel writing, and I got to write …

The Guts to Get Out

I meant to post this on Saturday, but then a tornado hit our town. All is mostly well. Several homes were lost (not mine, just to be clear), the baseball field is destroyed, and there was some damage to the track and a whole bunch of junk blown around. No serious injuries and no deaths, …

As Lin-Manuel’s Washington Would Say “Pick Up a Pen…”

I am returning from a two week jaunt on Prince Edward Island, Canada. The average temperature this time of year is about 20 degrees Fahrenheit (on warm days) and there was roughly five inches of snow on the ground when I arrived. Most people, both those that I know and those that I met while …