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Intelligent Conversations with Infants

What I’m Working on in 2024

I already feel like a jerk. The only thing that is going to keep me from being selfish and single-minded here in 2024 is if I need surgery or get diagnosed with cancer or just don’t wake up some morning. […]

Once We Become Unprecedented

Brain on music

The Psychology of Sound

I’ve spent my entire life astounded by the magic of music, appreciating everything from opera and Gregorian chant to bluegrass and every kind of jazz there is. But what exactly is being touched in us and inspired when we listen […]

So much to balance about life during the summer we are 15

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 […]

My Story “Like They’re Waiting” Gets Published

Girl looking in a mirror

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 […]

Old Music for New People

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 […]

Ivy and Rita waiting for the sunrise

Old Music for New People: Coming Soon