Number eight is in the books! My eighth story, “Left Field,” was published on May 3, 2018 in Lit Up magazine. Lit Up (link here) is an online magazine housed at Medium, which in all honesty was new to me until about a month ago. In that time, I have joined the blogging platform, published […]
The Writing Life
Winter into Spring
It’s been a long winter. This week has been the first since last fall that temperatures are projected to crest consistently above the 55 degree mark. With the upsurge in spring like weather, it can be easy (well, not so easy, really), to forget the sins of season’s past. Winter wasn’t that bad, and Maybe […]
On the Listening
“They go on…they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back. The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible that it does not exist. But they seem to know where they […]
Schuyler Avenue Storms and the Role of Place in Fiction
The oldest memory I have of my hometown has to do with a breezy August day, the threat of a storm, and an abandoned Big Wheel. We had gathered- the kids of Schuyler Avenue: the Dispensa brothers, Nick, Chris, and Mike, Kenny Roberts, Dawn Sturgess, Susie Domanico- the regulars, mostly older kids, to discuss the […]
Life Amid the Podcasts
Life has been different since the election. No kidding, right? Haven’t we all felt that? No matter what side of the political fence you sit on, you know that our world seems to be a much different place than it was just one year ago. So while the country goes through its paroxysms of disgust, […]
Lucky 7: Coydogs, Journeys, and Trimming the Fat
This is a story about a story. My seventh story published. It happens to be a very dear story to me, partly because it took so long to travel from inception to print. Heck, it may not even be done on its journey yet. I started writing “Coy Dog” in the spring of 2011. […]