fresh ideas from unexpected sources

I was workshopped for the first time this semester last night in my nonfiction class. I had turned in ch. 6 of the book, which, as previously mentioned, I kind of threw together at the last minute. I didn’t particularly think it was a good chapter because I essentially linked 5 scenes without offering transitions [...]

Saturday afternoon post

I’ve been a little spare in my postings recently…I’m not sure why. I’m just not feeling very bloggy I guess. Actually, I haven’t been feeling much like writing at all. Which, as you might guess, is a little problematic since I am enrolled in a nonfiction writing workshop for this, my last semester of classes. [...]

Boston weather

Within minutes after landing at Logan airport on Monday night, my feet regained numbness. It was cold. Really cold. Well, it’s been worse, but after a month of 50-85 degree weather and not wearing any coats, 20 degrees seemed a little bit chilly.
Here’s the thing. In California, you get used to fairly consistent weather. It’s [...]

equalizing forces

Whatever you want to say about the American system of airport security, one thing I like about it is that it can be an equalizing force. Leave aside for the moment that there are those two lines, one for the first class passengers and one for the rest of us, the regular people. Both lines [...]

books I read in 2005: A retrospective

A Moveable Feast-Ernest Hemingway

After Long Silence- Helen Fremont

After the Quake-Haruki Murakami

Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology-Adam Gopnik, editor

An American Requiem-James Carroll

Aspects of the Novel -E.M. Forster

Autobiography of a Face -Lucy Grealy

Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man-James Weldon Johnston

Best American Short Stories 2004, edited by Lorrie Moore

Best American Travel Writing 2004,, edited by Pico Iyer

Beyond the Sky [...]