I'm thrilled to have had a piece published by the Chicago Story Press Literary Journal. It's a chapter from the second half of my...

It's Christmas Day and I'm listening to the original recording of Leonard Bernstein's Mass, a work I fell in love with in the late 1970s...

I'm thrilled to announce that my personal essay, "Eulogizing Mom," which is also the sixth chapter of my memoir in progress, has been...

On October 2nd Fauxmoir Lit Mag (Fauxmoir.com) informed me that my piece, “Eulogizing Mom,” will be published in their Issue # 11, which...

When I started down the path of writing my memoir, I felt compelled to follow a linear progression of events in telling my story. This...

I wrote the "shitty first draft" of my memoir as part of the NaNoWriMo challenge in 2014 to write 50,000 words in a short period of time....

My personal essay, "The Curator of Family Regrets," is now published in Fauxmoir Lit Mag's issue No. 7. As I mentioned in my January 9th...

At her suggestion, my writing buddy Jamie Nielsen and I submitted to the Arizona Author's Association 2020 annual writing contest. I...

I have been working on my memoir since 2014, over 8 years now, and I'm still nowhere near completing it. As I've been peeling away and...

I submitted another flash fiction piece to Potato Soup Journal in May 2021, and was again rewarded by having it published that month....

The first writing I ever had published was a dark flash fiction piece, "Camouflage," accepted by Potato Soup Journal the summer of 2020....

My writing mentors have instructed me to write about the obstacle(s) in my way when I find myself unable to write to a prompt or am...