Originally published in shorter form on Facebook 22 September 2015. Wannabe writers: please hear me out on this. As much as my heart sinks every time some gatekeeper says no to one of my stories, and as much as I inwardly rail against the communal blindness involved when some story I deeply believe in proves […]
If you have any elderly relatives who you love but with whom you have experienced a sometimes contentious relationship that occasionally spills out into the present day, you have experienced the following, at least once, if not frequently. You tell them something. They say, “What?”, or mis-repeat what you just said. You repeat yourself, louder. […]
So did I ever tell you guys about the great four days in New York I had, a bunch of years back? We were headed in for a convention, one we only planned to attend on Saturday. The rest was being designated for family and friends. We landed at LaGuardia and took a cab […]