Category Archives: letters to you
Belga
I go to Belgium, for a week, on a travel junket for food writers. In the breakfast rooms of their hotels I read the news online from my computer, which is all about how Michelle Obama hugged the Queen, and … Continue reading
Filed under letters to you, trash, travel
The Story Thus Far
I’m writing this in my kitchen in Amherst, at my table while I cook a late dinner. I’ve spent the day preparing to start putting the second novel up on the wall again, something I haven’t done in a little … Continue reading
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I Am Either Where You Think I Am, Or, Not
It snowed this morning. It’s the first snow of the year. I woke up and there was the beautiful light off the snow in the kitchen as I came downstairs. I felt released from the fall. I took a break … Continue reading
Filed under blogs, books, fiction, fiction prompts, graphic novels, letters to you, meme, politics, what I am working on, writers, writing, writing exercises
Home Again
On the plane to Paris, I read articles about a new show coming to HBO, called Americatown. It imagines a future when Chinatown-style American ghettoes have sprung up all over the world, as Americans leave, looking for greater opportunity elsewhere. … Continue reading
Filed under letters from away, letters to you, Uncategorized
Happy 88th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage: The Do-Over
Last night I took down a number of what I think of as “internet angry guy” posts that I’d put up over a few weeks, posts that are the equivalent of me being like my mom and shouting at the … Continue reading
Filed under current events, letters to you, media, MFA programs, politics, writers, writing
