In June, my poet-sister and I took the ferry to Kelleys Island, one of our favorite places in the world, for a 3-day writing retreat.

Under the pressure of age and illness she lost her happiness, dragging herself from room to room, the house a prison now, hers and ours. One of us had to be

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Mary Grimm Winner – Editor’s Spotlight Award in Prose The Ghost President Visits Our Supermarket He arrives in a white van, followed by two more white vans. When he gets out he stands i…

These bones are metaphorical – a pile of manuscripts from decades ago, when I was a younger writer, unpublished for the most part.

An older generation dismissed him as passé; a newer one has recast him as a secular saint. But Baldwin’s true message remains more unsettling than either camp recognizes.

This summer has been a bad writing time for me.

How do other people, meaning people who are not writers, justify doing things like listening to 16 different covers of “God Only Knows?”

Today I was working on a story that’s been sitting in my computer for a long time, maybe as long as a decade.

Thirty-nine years ago I rode down the street I now live on for the first time.

Last week I finished the thing I’d been working on for a while.

Democrats should not confuse Trump’s tariff disaster for a trade policy that helps workers.

I’ve been reading a lot lately, even though the weather has started to improve.

It had not been necessary to vote for the ghost president. I remembered this at odd times, when they seemed more tangible. For instance when they were giving a speech on television and they were le…

The action was in protest to the recent firings of hundreds of National Park staff

One of the things I’m working on now is about the future, or maybe I should say it’s set in the future, since “about” suggests that I know what the future will be like, or that I have some kind of fut...

As we witness the first days of the new administration, the US Solidarity Economy Network (USSEN) stands united with a robust ecosystem of organizations and networks committed to defending our communi...

In the last little while I met with two groups of friends, all of them writers, and we talked as probably a lot of people do about the state of the world and our place in it and what we might do.

The Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series, by Laurell K Hamilton: the first 9 books only.

You think you’re prepared for both of these events but you’re not because they are overwhelming, one physically, one mentally, emotionally, and possibly metaphysically.

When I am writing I am following a trail which is a trail that the story itself generates, with some help from me.