Dear Great Grandchildren, I am writing this letter on the eleventh day of 2021 and already the year’s been horrifying. Just writing this letter is an act of [...]

I have achieved a lot in my life. Some of my achievements are small but each serves as a building block to the next. Some of my achievements [...]

I remember two birthdays of equal and conflicting importance. When I turned fifty, I felt the world owed me a big ass party. I wasn’t willing to leave [...]

I loathe cowardice; but I am afraid of heights. I experience self loathing every time I trek to anywhere above 5 thousand feet. But I do climb with [...]

“ He has a (pause) lisp, I think.” I have said this, one eye closed in concentration as I scrutinize the talking head I am observing on TV. [...]

I was raised by a couple of list driven Calvinists. They didn’t mean to be Calvinists; in fact they rejected Calvinism because it made them feel guilty. But [...]

Every writer dreams of a book signing. It is payback for all the time spent writing in obscurity. It is the essence of being done with writing a [...]

Why I Write For me being a writer is organic and not a choice. The need to tell stories was in place long before I became aware of [...]

“Summer, you can feel it dying.” This is the opening sentence to Jerry Spinelli’s Space Station Seventh Grade. I use it at the beginning of the school year [...]

I am heading my greatest fear off at the pass, fear of being called a fraud. It’s hard to be called a fraud when you write fiction. Fiction’s [...]

American Family, my debut novel, is the story of two men, Richard Lawson and Michael Elson, struggling to gain custody of their biological daughter, Brady, who is in [...]