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I'm a daily writer, an artist, a yoga student and corgi owner. My site is mostly about writing and what I am learning about it.. "You must always keep changing your process!" Maria Irene Fornes says. "Because there are two of you, one who wants to write and one who doesn't. The one who wants to write has to keep fooling the one who doesn't!"

Current Projects

Face First: A Memoir

Face First, my current project, is the story of my quest to see clearly. It all began with a chance remark at my twentieth high school reunion, which, in turn led me to discover a disturbing family medical secret. Researching the inherited condition, I came upon a phrase that would unexpectedly change my life: face recognition. Up to this point, I knew nothing about the tiny part of the human brain called the fusiform face area, where, when we are confronted with a human face, a sophisticated series of perception processes begins instantaneously. Or in my case, does not begin. Face blindness? I’d never heard of such a thing. Was not being able to recognize my family members a key part of being related to them? Read on...

The Practice of Creative Writing

The Practice of Creative Writing is for the introductory mixed-genre creative writing classroom. I've read student creative writing for almost 20 years, and written a great heap of it myself. This is what I've noticed: We learn all these rules. Then someone brings something to class and it ignores all the rules and its amazing. How? Why? My teacher, Jerry Stern, used to say it was good if it was interesting. I wanted to find a way to teach my students how to avoid being boring on the page. Read on...