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  • Story of a Terrible Drawing: The Relaunch

    This creative nonfiction short story, originally published in 2014, has been relaunched! I thought it would be nice to offer my readers a few free copies as reintroduction  (well, it’s also what you’re supposed to do when you’re an unknown author, right?) [laughs nervously]. So, I have a promotion going from February 14 thru the 18th, the…

  • A Walk in the (Snowy) Park

    We met on a social media comment section of a popular page. Arguing about each other’s point of view, we took the angry exchange to direct messaging. Well, he DM-ed me first. He said he was sorry if he came off as too aggressive, but he wanted to end the convo in good terms because I…

  • I am highly inspired by the inspired, and the inspiring; by the extraordinary and the sublime; by confidence and humility. And thankfully, we can find that kind of inspiration all around us. Sometimes you just have to dig a little deeper, look a little closer — perhaps from a different angle.

  • Can’t you see, girl? I’m trying to get to you, Doing crazy things that only artists do. A shadow of your posts appears on my feed, my keyboard gets all eager, girl, A tweet I must set free. I try to play it cool, pretend your face don’t matter, Date one here and there, But…

  • When celebrating Earth, I’m always reminded of two things: 1) We’re all citizens of this planet, so let us stop calling other humans “illegal.” And 2) Without Earth, there’s no us — let’s do all we can to keep it clean and take better care of it. Astronomer Carl Sagan’s beautiful famous words on Earth,…