Being between projects is like going on a vacation having packed the idea that there’s no home to come back to.  read more »

We all have our roles. As writers, ours just sits a little further removed from life, death, sustenance, and shelter on the ol’ Maslow’s hierarchy of need.  read more »

No wonder the writer lives in a schizophrenic relationship with the page. Our passion is to create with an instrument that is the very definition of definition.  read more »

If you dissect the paradoxical relationship between desire and happiness, the answer grace offers is non-attachment.  read more »

Circles, cycles, spirals—these are the patterns of journeys that are measured in growth, not distance. The reason a good story—and especially a movie—has to come full circle, beginning and ending at the same spot, is because it highlights the fact that all journeys are really internal, the important ones anyway.  read more »

Nostalgia is the romance of time when time has erased romance.  read more »

Each moment spent writing is the equivalent of making an undetermined appointment with an unnamed reader at an unnumbered time in an unknown location. And yet we still do it.  read more »

If you take something too far, at the very least you risk straddling the dual states of joining the masses in cliché and being utterly alone.  read more »

While visiting my parents over the recent holidays at their home in Chandler, Arizona, something went missing. We didn’t call the police. We didn’t file a report.  read more »

The sequestered author toys with the risk of running out of material or at the very least tweaking it to acid trip proportions.  read more »