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media debate • books • movies

I’d like to think I average at least 10,000 words a day on my Kindle when I’m using it, but right now, I have no idea how much I read.

why I write • faith • visual art

I called my children by each other’s names, missed appointments, left my keys in the running car.

advice • teaching • interviews

It’s part of cartooning—trying to find the essence of something and simplifying it.

fiction • memoir • writer's life

It’s an odd suggestion, but I go, leaden and lost in the dust of the midway.

featured poets • poetry spotlights

I notice buds late to their blossoming, a flaw that makes one realize sunlight offers no clues.

from adoption to writerly sins...

You do need Mom and Dad to fuck you up—or you don’t have much of a story.