Category: Memoir

• Girls Like Superheroes, Too, You Know

  It’s hard raising a daughter. Somehow, in 2016, I feel like the world has gotten tougher for girls. Maybe it’s because social media amplifies everything to a ridiculous volume, but…

• A Few Words on “The Umbrella People”

    That handsome cover belongs to a reprint anthology my story “The Umbrella People” is a part of. There are stories by others whose names make me giddy, like Ray…

• Don’t Make Me Angry, I’m Always Angry, or Why You Should Go Eff Yourself

    It was about a week before the new school year was to begin, this past summer, almost two months back now. Pamela and G had just gone to bed…

• Grad School: Week 1, or Through the Looking Glass & What Bill Learned There

  Today is the end of my first week as a grad student. I have no fucking idea what I’m doing. Because I don’t have time to drive and attend an actual…

• This Is Where the Magic Happens, or How I’m Obsessed with Writers’ Workspaces

    I’m rather obsessed with writers’ workspaces. Their desks, offices, writing sheds, whatever it is they use, however they use it. I know I’m not alone on this, but I…

• Hey, Kids. Do You Like the Rock N Roll? Or How David Letterman Made Life Bearable & Helped Me Through Adolescence

  I’m sure that I tried to watch David Letterman on TV before August 30th, 1993. By that date, I was six days into being 16 and I’d been suffering from…

• The End Has Finally Come, or Hey, Mom! I Finished the Novel!

    See that? That’s what’s at the very end of my manuscript for Echoes on the Pond. The reason I’m showing you is because—and I say this knowing it’s not 100%…

• Friends & Presents, or I Am a Rock

  G, the two-year-old, is watching Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood‘s special “Snowflake Day,” a phenomenal special that is a way to be an all-inclusive winter holiday. The kids in the show put…

• The End is Nigh, or Summer Vacation is Almost Over. Damn! That Went Fast.

  It’s 8:56 PM as I write these words. At this time next week, I will be tired after having gone to work for the first time since mid-June. I’m depressed.…

• Death, or A Weird Few Months

  In the last two or three months, three people I’ve known have died, and I found out about a death of someone else I knew from back in 2012. It’s…