A Year In Reading – 2014
I had hoped to share my reading list this year. As I did last year, I had tracked it all on a google map, all the settings and cities and villages of each book, labelled all pretty. In mid-November, I clicked to add a new book and its location, slipped to a key, and somehow lost the map in its entirety. Despite a lot of whining, no recovery possible. So, it is fitting, in a year in which my life turned upside down with the birth of my son, that I have no record of all the boo
My Wish This Christmas
I wish you love. The lyrics from a Natalie Cole song. And a sentiment I’ve been thinking a lot about this Christmas Eve. This past week, my family lost someone very special, my beloved Uncle Sonny. The story of his character, his heart, and his incredible life could fight its way through page seams, take off on an endless, runaway scrawl, too fervent and restless for this small space. So I’ll say only this. His voice was always very quiet. You had to lean in to hear it. He ha
Check out these snack-able stories for purchase
Earlier this month I was able to participate in a unique project from the Head and the Hand Press at the Science Leadership Academy. A vending machine in the school features the work of students and authors in the form of chapbooks; short, ‘snack-able’ stories. I was so happy to share my chapbook, The Song Inside. For those of you who can’t make it to the school who are interested in purchasing chapbooks, they are now available in the online store of the Head and the Hand Pre
The Blue Jay’s Dance: A Birth Year by Louise Erdrich
There are bird people. I wouldn’t consider myself one of them. Where I live, the birds are rats of the sky, teeming pigeons, sputtering their wings at my approaching bicycle wheel, pecking at scraps of lunch. They make their homes at window sills and peeling benches, in the shafts of subway platforms. They are friends with the neglected, with the sidewalk dwellers and tattered-robe wanderers. They are no friends of mine. It is with this bias, this complete ignorance, inattent
A Trip to Philly to celebrate stories in a vending machine and do my first reading
UPDATE: Many of you asked how to purchase these stories. They are now available here for $3 (shipping included.) I spent last evening in Philadelphia, dreaming words on the train, sitting on the benches in Rittenhouse Square, looking up, in the wet dark, at the twinkling Christmas lights. Then, I walked down a blue lit path on 22nd street and went to the Science Leadership Academy. It’s a school I’ve heard about and wondered about. I’ve seen the TED Talks and articles and the
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