I’ve got a new essay, “Home Range,” in the spring/summer issue of South 85 Journal. If you’ve launched a kid into the world and/or lost a parent, you might relate. Here’s a taste: The summer my mother crossed out of our lives, my son and I hit the road. It was 2021, a year of… Continue reading »
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Secret gardens
A friend of mine who writes middle-grade novels told me recently that historical fiction for kids is selling well these days. (I guess we’ve all had enough of the current reality.) Linda Joan Smith’s debut novel, THE PEACH THIEF, fits right into that. I wrote about it, glowingly, for the New York Times Book Review:… Continue reading »
Fire, ice, and Feiffer
New blog post: a freezing update from DC, and RIP Jules Feiffer.
Twelfth Night/J6
Remembering what I saw at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
November 2024: Quiet time
“The news will find you, so pace yourself if you can”: A shorter-than-usual, post-election newsletter about taking some time to regroup before whatever’s coming.
