Emotions then Numbers

Emotions then Numbers

Maybe we can think of 125 things Mom means to us—one for each day of this year so far—before we drift off under the Chicago sky, where city lights dim the stars.

What’s Here and Now

What’s Here and Now

What absences or pattern interruptions have helped you find more appreciation for what you have right here and now?

The Push and Pull of Life

The Push and Pull of Life

Ed could invent a thousand excuses for choosing to drink. He could pretend life had driven him to drink. But the truth was he just wanted to. It wasn’t something else and the drink. It was just Ed and the drink.

Flash Fiction in the Sand

Flash Fiction in the Sand

My flash-fiction story, “The Conceit of Sand,” was picked up by Third Wednesday Magazine. If you need a pick me up in your hectic week, this publication has the perfect balance of brief and deep.

Writing Questions

Writing Questions

After feeling a need to avoid pause and to avoid questions that my strangle me, I learned ways to use pause and questions to help me grow and deepen my fiction.