Just submitted a book manuscript, but not before searching and deleting 90% of: just, little, and began.

My life has many good things in it, for which I am grateful. Sometimes there are pictures. Congratulations to Anastasia and Gabriel, winners of the Wisconsin Rapids (I was born…View post

For me it was Just Before Dark, The Woman Lit By Fireflies, and the poetry. I wrote this in 2010 and will let it stand today: Perhaps some day I…View post

Neat, humbling, unexpected, and fitting: students using my writing in forensics competitions. Fitting because when my 7th grade English teacher introduced me to forensics she gave me survival tools I…View post

  Next week’s column, a bunch of false starts. Fact that I’m working in longhand a sign of trouble.