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While waiting for my son on Sunday afternoon, I tried to make a short video of myself using my new (cheap) Flip camcorder and found I had no...

The family computer crashed Saturday night. I took it to the Apple Store Monday, hoping they could revive it, but after an hour of working o...

I knew of only two other people in college who were as low on funds as I was. One was Therese, a dancer/choreographer who was so broke she ...

Color comes to my blog for a day... Here are some of the postcards I made alongside Chandra Garsson in Santa Cruz throughout the summer of ...

I was reminded of Thomas Wolfe—specifically, Look Homeward, Angel— while reading the short story "Bible" by Tobias Wolff the other...

[This essay has been removed and is being polished for publication elsewhere.]

It just so happens that the same day I was invited to participate in yet another list exercise on Facebook (this one called “The Name Game”)...

I have a quiet morning for the first time in weeks. There are no pressing deadlines, nothing to do except a household to-do list that can be...

I normally update this blog at least once a week. So it felt funny last week when Tuesday rolled by, then Friday, and I hadn't posted an...

In a continued effort to plump up the "Writers' Tools" section of this blog (and for my own use, so I'll have one place to...