Today, I turn seventy-two. That is a fair number of years to have lived. On the one hand, its not that impressive. There’s no great achievement here. Still, I suppose I am feeling a bit cocky. Perhaps I am deserving a small pat on the shoulder and a hearty, “well done.” Seventy-Two. In 1965, it […]
It has been a while since I wrote a blog post. The guilt mounts. The last post was also about short lists. I’m sensing a theme. Today, February 15th is one day away from a new short list. I may or may not make it. Sitting here in my writing chamber, the snow, even though […]
As someone who has not often been on anyone’s short list, at least to my knowledge, my recent elevation to the FBCW’s short list for its 650-word fiction/non-fiction literary contest, “How I Choose to Hibernate,” was a delightful experience, albeit somewhat short lived. The mystery is over, and I did not win. I do offer […]
So, there I was in the early fall of 2016, writing flash fiction at a furious pace, working (mostly dawdling, to be honest) on the drafts of two novels, waiting for the release of my second book, Confessions of an Inadvertently Gentrifying Soul, you know, just hanging on my every written and hard to […]