I kept getting goosebumps every time the promo pieces for the new Supergirl show came on TV in the first three weeks of October. The week before the show debuted I told my wife that I simply had to watch it. She gave me a funny […]
That Warm Gooey Feeling: The New View of Climate Change
Over at Mashable they just posted an interesting article on social media’s perception of the climate change issue. According to the article, “Internet has revelation that climate change action won’t kill the economy after all,” during the last year or so […]
Fighting Violence and Terror with Art, Joy and Youth
We’ve all been wondering how to counteract the lunacy and mayhem that seems to have seriously marked 2015 throughout the world. Right? It’s not just terrorists, out-of-control cops, and criminals. There’s a lot of hatred a certain category of people […]
Summer 2015: Books I’ve Read and Books I’ve Been Working On
I want to share some thoughts on what I read this summer, just so you know what writers do with all that spare time they have. At the end of this essay I also report on some of the stuff […]
All the Light We Cannot See: A Quick Review
There’s no question that Tony Doerr is one of our most lyrical and thoughtful writers. If you haven’t read any of his work, I highly recommend his two collections of stories as a good place to start: The Shell Collector […]
Thank-You for Making Your Broken Bird World
Yesterday I bid adieu to my Facebook wall and all the people who live there (for as long as I can, I think). It felt really interesting to wake up this morning. That strange convolution was no longer tangled up […]
Divesting in Trustee Wussyness: College Campuses and Climate Change Action
This spring Swarthmore College’s students, alumni and faculty stood up to demand that the school’s Board of Managers (their trustees) divest funding in fossil fuel businesses and technologies. I reported on that here in “The State of the War on […]
The State of the War on Climate Change: Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way
Talking Writing magazine just posted an interview I did with climate activist and environmental journalist Bill McKibben called “We Don’t Require Leaders.” I urge you to go check it out. McKibben surprised me with some of his answers. The whole […]
Why I Wrote a Novel by a Girl: When a Dude Figures Out the Power of Emotion in Literature
I just finished revising the second draft of my next novel, which means I now have Draft #3 to print out. I’m doing that as I write this post. The whole process started back in October of 2013. Draft #1 clocked […]
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