Sprezzatura!
I’m so excited to share a new story I wrote called Sprezzatura. It takes place over a single day in November a few years back […]
I’m so excited to share a new story I wrote called Sprezzatura. It takes place over a single day in November a few years back […]
Lately, I’ve been writing about diners. I don’t really know why I love them so much. It might have to do with the abundant portions, […]
I love to read the obituaries in the New York Times, especially of people who were just a little bit older than me. When I’m […]
I’ve had a lot of different jobs in my lifetime – editor, writer, dishwasher, cook – but the one I loved best was being a […]
No sooner had the warm liquid, and the crumbs with it, touched my palate than a shudder ran through my whole body, and I stopped, […]
I was so happy when this beautiful magazine Breakwater Review accepted my story “Dad Lost the Car” because I love writing about my family, especially […]
Oh no! The radiator cover is sloughing off its coat of paint, and there are spider cracks in the walls and ceiling of our bathroom. […]
The photo on the left is my friend Susan and her husband, Ron, standing in front of his beloved Datsun 280Z. Last summer, when Stan […]
This is Stephanie and me at our 20th college reunion—right around the time my first gray hairs started to come in. For whatever reason – […]
Perhaps you’ve heard the expression, attributed to both Aristotle and the Jesuits, “Give me a child at 7 and I will show you the man”? […]