It would also be incredibly helpful for all of us to stop worrying so much about how we think other people see us.
Lonely Rebels Unite: It’s Novelicious
You go through quite a journey of discovery when you write a novel. The reason that long fiction is so important is because it’s an extended opportunity to learn and think about being in the world. Sometimes novels and their […]
Talking to Each Other Without Understanding Much at All
The tendency to see people through superficial stereotyping has become the norm. And the ease with which we all forget that when simplistically misjudging other people can affect whole families and communities.
The Summer We Are 15
Flash growth and learning to survive. A version of this essay was originally published at Medium.com and then with The Good Men Project “Modern Identities” imprint I was 15 in 1973. It was the year my parents began their divorce. It […]
Writing in a Girl’s Voice
Never tell a character in your head to get lost A slightly different form of this essay was published in Medium.com One morning nearly ten years ago, a voice showed up in my head as I was walking up the stairs […]
On Tour with My Book
I am grateful as heck to all the people who have been enjoying Old Music for New People, and to the team at The Story Plant working hard to get folks to pay attention to this story that wants to […]
What Does Gender Mean, Anyway?
I’m happy to say that my new novel Old Music for New People comes out early next week (click here to go to its main landing page). As anyone who loves teens knows, stories about young people coming of age […]
Old Music for New People: Coming Soon
So what’s the book about? Well, there’s a big conversation going on in this country right now about gender identity.
Our national conversation about gender identity is one big miscommunication
I had a friend in junior high whose father and uncle decided they’d had enough of his long hair (beautiful, silken, golden wheat-colored, cascading well below his shoulders). They trapped him in the bathroom one Sunday night, held him against […]
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